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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Meachers splitting tactics


Spare us from Meacher - He voted for the war - What did he do for the environment as a minister? How many houses has he got??? I wouldn't want to see the kind of internecine dispute for which the Left are famous, or infamous. John McDonnell is the candidate with credibility. Meachers credentials, as a candidate of the Left, are much more ambiguous BBC reports Labour MP Stephen Pound, who described Mr Meacher as a "faintly ridiculous" figure, said he would be surprised if the veteran left-winger managed to get the required support. "It's a pity because, frankly, he's going to get humiliated," said the Ealing North MP. "I suspect he knows that, if he put his ego to one side a bit he would realise that."
Aren't there ANY real socialist Women in the Labour Party? Obviously not.

Meanwhile the deluded PM defends Iraq policy insisting that adequate planning for post-war Iraq was undertaken before the invasion went ahead? OK OK just shut it Tony.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Doesn't it say it all about the Labour Party that a decent guy like John McDonnell who stands for traditional labour values will be lucky to even get enough MPs to support him to stand? Compare his worthy campaign to the Benn campaign in 1981 that galvanised the left and you see how impossible it is that socialist salvation is going to come from within the Labour Party.

Only 12 Labour MPs were prepared to vote to support an inquiry into the Iraq War, half the socialist campaign group voted against & not a single Welsh Labour MP was prepared to support such an inquiry.

Personally, I think the best way Left wing MPs like Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell et al, and figures like Tony Benn could further the cause of socialism is not staying within the Labour Party to fight but breaking away to help forge a real labour party - the time is ripe!

AJ

PS. To Theoretician: Excellent blogs, by the way, and did you get my email?