Emeritus Prof Christopher MayFeb 28

Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:

'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....

NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!

#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton

Show threadNorbersFeb 28
@ChrisMayLA6 Perhaps he/she is more confident of seeing off Reform than the Greens. I can imagine swapping my vote to Green but never to Reform. They may be worried there are lots more like me.
Show threadBarney Dellar (he/him)Feb 28
@BNorbury @ChrisMayLA6 Exactly this. Labour see the Greens as a threat to the Labour Party. Reform are merely a threat to ordinary people. Obviously protecting the Labour Party is the most importantly political goal.
Show threadPeter BrownFeb 28
@BarneyDellar @BNorbury @ChrisMayLA6 I think it was Gordon Brown who opined that power was far more important than policies or even principles.
Show threadBarney Dellar (he/him)
@peterbrown @BNorbury @ChrisMayLA6 I mean, in a sense, that’s true. For a political party, policies and principles are irrelevant if you don’t have the ability to implement them.
Feb 28 at 6:10pmWeb
Show threadPeter BrownFeb 28
@BarneyDellar @BNorbury @ChrisMayLA6 unfortunately it was in the context of laying aside of your policies and principles at the altar of power.
Otherwise known as selling your soul.