The Labour Party has lost its marbles
JVL Introduction
The Labour Party is increasingly unhinged.
Its expulsion of the President of one of the largest trade unions in Britain today, Andrea Egan of Unison, beggars belief
Socialists of any hue seem to be an embarrassment to the leadership, as is any hint of critical debate.
So here we have Egan thrown out merely for sharing two articles put out by the group Socialist Appeal. Never mind that the first one was a protest against Socialist Appeal’s proscription before it happened and that the second related to Egan’s election campaign within Unison!
This comes hard on the heels of the equally unacceptable, factional expulsion of Martin Mayer of Unite.
It’s surely beyond time for the unions to reassert a modicum of democratic control over the Party they set up to represent their interests in parliament back in the day…
This article was originally published by Novara Media on Fri 18 Nov 2022. Read the original here.
President of Unison Expelled From Labour Party
“If the Labour party is so serious about fighting for working class people, why is it fighting working class people?”
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In the above article it says:
On July 20 2021, the Labour Party NEC voted to proscribe Socialist Appeal. A Labour spokesperson said: “These organisations are not compatible with Labour’s rules or our aims and values.”
Well I don’t know about the rules, and as for aims, the main aim since shortly after Starmer was elected leader has been – one way or another – to exorcise the left from the LP, and THAT says it ALL about their values.
NB I just did a quick search and it looks as if the MSM are all keeping schtum about it.
Me too..the LP has resigned from me!!
The Labour Party’s right-wing leadership haven’t lost their marbles at all. They are now being exposed for what they have always been for decades and decades, if not well over a century. They’ve always represented the aristocracy of those sections of the working class/middle class with its wheedling, cap-doffing endeavours to prise only miniscule concessions out of the billionaire/millionaire, ruling elite for the majority of the working class, whilst the aristocracy of labour get their due rewards of life peerages and highly paid jobs, post parliamentary retirement, for their their Judas work of services rendered, a la Blair and the likes of the Kinnocks… the list is endless.
This kind of authoritarianism not only has no place in the Labour Party, but has no place in the political life of any country which claims to be a democracy. It is a betrayal of everything that the Labour Party has ever stood for. It is true that there have been attempts to sideline the left before; Kinnock and Blair spring easily to mind. But this wholesale attack on party members and party officials is unprecedented in its scope and its cruelty. It is nothing less than a purge by a leadership that is now more interested in its own power than in carrying out the will of the people it claims to represent. Parallels with certain other political parties in other nations which have taken this path may be drawn from recent history; and they did immense damage which scarred the world. I hate to see the Labour Party of all parties taking the risk of repeating dangerous and destructive errors which it should be making every effort, for all our sakes, to avoid.
Extraordinary that the president of Labour’s biggest affiliated union can be expelled for highlighting a story about herself!
Presumably, it would have been perfectly fine to share stories from the Daily Mail, Sun or Telegraph (or even to write for them) as those publications are more in line with Labour’s “aims and values”?
Labour’s expulsion of Egan and Mayer’s should trigger consideration by both UNISON and UNITE to withhold funding, if not disaffiliate from the Party
It’s time the Unions realised that Starmer is not going to act for them, sacking Sam Tarry for going on a picket line, should have had them raging, this time, they should all come together, get well known Socialist MPs and start a new Democratic Socialist Party, millions will support it, they are desperate for a Party that will represent them in Parliament.
Nigel Haines is on the money, and we could go as far as saying that Labour have never really been about helping the working class since its inception, as well as being imperialists.
Like everyone I am appalled. But. Im would say that the view that the Labour Party has always behaved like this is not the case. Certainly there were disputes between the right and the left but leaders like Harold Wilson James Callaghan and John Smith always included the left at the top
table. Wilson’s government of 1974 passed much legislation approved of by the left It is the Blairite tendency which sees no value in regarding Labour as a broad church unfortunately.