Yes. Corbyn promises to tweak the mess…
Oh and give us extra bank holidays. In offering to
end zero hours contracts and strengthen union representation – he does at least
aim to counter the ridiculous Miliband dissociation from the workers’ movement
that birthed the party. Let’s face it – that was like a feminist group saying
they would distance themselves from women. But all in all, it’s too little, too
weak, too muddled and way too late.
‘I’ll make
the shit smell a bit better’ – seems to be Corbyn’s offer to Britain.
That is the Liberal’s line too – the party that
propped up the Tories and sold a generation down the toilet with their colossal deceit on
tuition fees. But Labour is supposed to be the official opposition. In reality,
they haven’t been for a very long time.
Yes – the UK is having a General election – or if
you observed the sudden verve and energy and enthusiasm (from everyone apart
from the electorate that is) it’s a ‘general erection’ for politicians who’d
rather be posturing than running the country.
I mean – isn’t that what elections have become? They
have morphed from real democracy into pseudo mob rule. The first-past-the-post
voting system has caused political constipation in the UK for decades. Folk who
spend too much time watching soap operas and reality TV, panic vote following
the latest nonsense stories about immigration, while politicians get all pumped
up with fake passion. And JC is doing just that. He is zealously proposing to
close the barn door after the horse has bolted and the barn has burnt down. He
is going to furiously fiddle round the edges. He’s made really (almost) impassioned
speeches about how big business will quake in its boots if Labour get in. Can
you hear the rustle of bank notes as the wealthy scrabble about for their
millions of unpaid taxes? Can you hear the squeal of brakes as all the banks,
fleeing the UK, respond to Corbyn’s inspiring tones about a better economy and
about turn? No.
This is the party that couldn’t even elect a capable
woman leader (for once) when it had the chance – even though it would have sent
out almost the most positive message the party could muster. JC continues on
his Blairesque ego trip – the people need MEEEEE. And that nasty little war
criminal Blair is sniping from the side-lines, like none of this has anything
to do with his legacy, inviting voters to cast for other parties if they think
it might get them a soft Brexit – as if he can deliver some sort of political
pooh softening laxative – it’s STILL SHIT.
Even the moolah-monster Mandelson is pitching in
with his horrible cadaver sneer at the writhing zombie of the Labour party he
helped to poison. It’s too awful. But being complicit in the status quo is not
the answer.
It’s clear why Theresa May is doing this. Many
observers (me included) regularly refer to her as our unelected Prime Minister
– which she is. The woman who campaigned for Remain now wants to stamp on
dissenting voices so she can take us hard over the Brexit cliff and she has
looked across at the opposition front bench and concluded, now is the time.
I have the greatest respect for many left wing
commentators and genuine Labour activists who are energetically calling for
unity. Quick – let’s paper over the cracks – again. Swallow your misgivings,
they say, and support Jeremy because the alternative – a stronger Tory
government – is unthinkable. One real argument for voting Labour in your area
might be to keep out the UKIP slime but I think Paul Nuttal has already done
that job.
Unfortunately, the UK is now a tanker without enough
room to stop before it hits the Brexit rocks. (NB Labour is – today – finally –
laying out some sort of plan for Brexit) A Labour victory would simply mean
that Labour would be at the helm when the smash happens and there would be even
less incentive for the root and branch change required if the party is not to
become extinct.
I’ve tried to sit through some you tube videos of
Corbyn interviews (thank god I don’t have TV) and all I can conclude is that
those ludicrous, dithering, fumblings where you can see the cogs slowly grinding,
is Corbyn thinking – ‘… how would I answer this
question if it really were 1975?’
Following Theresa May’s the-breaks-have-gone-on-the-car
victory on June 8th there must be one very significant resignation
on June 9th – that of Jeremy Corbyn. Then Labour can begin the job
it should have started after Blair hollowed out the Labour party or when Miliband set out confusing everyone – rebuilding
and actually planning for the next real election in 2022.
Between now and then - God help us.
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See also -
blog 50 - Ed Miliband – Political Semolina
blog 107 – Labour’s Gift to the Tories – Again!
blog 135 - Kim Kardashian and Ed Miliband – I told
you