Michael Rosen’s 10-point Guide to Labour Leadership Candidates

Hi, Michael: I’ve just been forwarded this by a friend In Melbourne. Your sense of irony is so refreshing – it almost (almost, I say) makes one forget the ugliness meted out to Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party and thus for the citizens and the frightful days ahead for the UK (oops! Britain) under the Brexiteer Boris. Long may you keep up your guidance.

1. Marvellous – and I hope through the chosen format of obliterating satire, even more effective to stick in the minds of the audience – and all-inclusive analyses of the main factors that led to the dramatic electoral loss of UK Labour at the hands of the many omnipresent dark forces, mentioned in the contribution above.

2. Dark forces from within and from outside the party (including even individuals from the UK security and military institutions, and even including the usual powerful, covertly and ingeniously operating dark forces from outside the UK, as Rosen rightfully identified), that wanted to prevent at all cost (because of a range of dark multi-political motives) that Corbyn – or someone of his specific political persuasion, if you look for example at the tragic political fate, that his predecessor Miliband struck at the 2015 campaign – to become the next prime minister.

3. The net result of course being that another western country has fallen prey to the cynical anti-democratic forces of racism and fascism, that are flushing all over our so-called free world, like an all-consuming tsunami.

4. No doubt, many champagne corks will have been filling the airspace of certain government buildings in cities like Washington, Budapest, Warsaw and Tel Aviv last Thursday night (not to speak of all those buildings that do harbour those many sinister Extreme Right organisations, that have not yet been officially established and installed).

5. Furthermore, we simply have to conclude now, that ultimately both our political and the ecological climate(s) are at stake these days, and the progressive forces of our world will have to fight on both fronts simultaneously and fight with (at least) the same rigor and determination as the extreme right, that is trying to slowly but certainly conquer their destructive power over our future.

6. More in particular : The constructive and assertive left will have to adopt a (considerably) more aggressive approach (both politically, intellectually, ideologically and tactically) in this vital encounter than ever before, for this time the fight is about our very mental, spiritual, as well as about our very physical well-being.

7. In fact this dual fight – climate denying ‘Judeo-Christian’ white-supremacists more specifically do most literally speak of an all decisive (race) war – will appear to be an existential matter of mere survival, so in the end this fight – apart from the ongoing struggles about our political culture and ditto national and international orientation – will be a matter of to-be-or-not-to-be for mankind (and for many more living beings in our vulnerable earthly biosphere).

8. Be prepared and vigilant, for If there has been one thing, that we will have to be learning from the recent highly divisive election campaigns in the UK, the USA and other countries, it will be, that we shall not make any mistake this time, about (under-estimating) the very preparedness, tactics and radius of our opponents.

9. Make no mistake, for the extreme right – world-wide handsomely financed and broadly facilitated otherwise by big economic, ideological and political special interest groups, like the Koch Brothers, the Murdoch and Adelson/Mercer/Singer imperia for example – is more motivated and better equipped than ever before.

10. Better motivated and better equipped, to finally and fundamentally demolish the precious contemporary democratic experiments – based as they (still) are, on Universal / Equal Human Rights, rather than on highly selective and discriminatory ethnically and/or physically originated criteria – that we have been pursuing in the west over the last century or so (and possibly even demolishing our human habitat in the process).

11. As we might have noticed in recent times : The neo-totalitarians (not unlike their predecessors) will show no mercy whatsoever to – dissent from their own ranks, let alone from the ranks of – their ideological advisories.

12. Many thanks again to Michael Rosen, and I suspect, that his next contribution – “Come back to me for more in a few days time“ – will be another piece of literary art, like a poem on the subject of political warfare (culminating into war-poetry even, to keep it all in style).

11. Never digest a sentence with more than three words in it.

Bravo! I applaud you. Sharing far and wide

Yes, it’s funny. Except I’ve heard some candidates for the leadership making similar statements.

Heart wrenchingly true Michael. We need more of you to even begin to cope now.

Thank you so much. This really cheered me up. I feel there are such dark days ahead. Yours is a voice of sanity.

Nail on head. But I’m worried some people will take at face value…

Thank you so much for this, Mr Rosen. It’s wonderful.

Thank you Michael; really clear and perceptive piece that’s both hilarious and depressing!

Wonderfully and hilariously put, as ever. As things currently stand, vis-a-vis MSM and the party currently in office, Labour will need to follow Michael’s ten-point plan to the letter if they are ever to regain power. Thank you!