Removal of the left remains Starmer’s priority
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Rachel Garnham is Vice-Chair, Campaign for Labour Party Democracy.
In this article she looks at Labour’s recent proscription of four organisations and sees more to follow.
It is, she argues, only the latest step in Starmer’s obvious determination to remove Labour’s left-wing at all levels…
This article was originally published by Labour Outlook on Tue 27 Jul 2021. Read the original here.
Removal of theleft remains Starmer’s priority
“It is now almost laughable to recall Starmer’s leadership platform of integrity, authority & unity.”
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Somebody else who pretended to be on the left was Neil Kinnock.
After the 1987 general election, he claimed that Labour had lost because of its opposition to nuclear weapons. This was contradicted by Denis Healey in his memoirs.
Years later, however, Kinnock admitted that he had never really been against nuclear weapons throughout his entire leadership of the Labour Party!
“From the early 1980s really, I recognised the unsustainability of the unilateral nuclear disarmament policy.”
“Analysis” BBC Radio 4, 29 February 2016.
Trident is neither a deterrent or independent
Michael Portillo Tory Defence Minister
The fantasy that the LP can be saved and that we can go back to the party of the 1970s persists and the old “Broad Church” re-assembled. This is fantasy, and people on the Left need to understand that and gather round a new banner.
I voted Labour for the first time in my now-55 years in December 2019 because of Mr Corbyn. It looks like I will never have a reason to do so again. The late Mr Benn’s analysis of Labour party’s position in British politics appears to be exactly the same as that of Mr Starmer even if for very different reasons.
The Labour party is no longer with fighting for. It is finished, morally and financially bankrupt. Mandelson once said “those labour voters have no where else to go”. Well they do. Why vote for the imitation tories when you can have the real thing. The Green party will make significant gains next time, Plaid will do the same. Blair and Brown ignored Scotland and look what happened there, Labour is an irrelevance in Scotland and will never recover. Wales only stayed Labour because of Drakeford and his response to the pandemic. Sir Keith is leaving Wales alone for now, because its labour’s only success, but that is only temporary.