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Labour Faces Subversion By Momentum And Far Left...
.....says Roy Hattersley.
///Labour is facing the biggest crisis in its history as the leftwing pressure group Momentum tries to purge it of moderate MPs and councillors in a systematic takeover of the party, former deputy leader Roy Hattersley has warned.//
https:/ /www.th eguardi an.com/ politic s/2017/ dec/02/ labour- faces-s ubversi on-mome ntum-fa r-left- roy-hat tersley -watfor d-byele ction
Is Labour becoming its own worst enemy?
///Labour is facing the biggest crisis in its history as the leftwing pressure group Momentum tries to purge it of moderate MPs and councillors in a systematic takeover of the party, former deputy leader Roy Hattersley has warned.//
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Is Labour becoming its own worst enemy?
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Momentum
A new kind of politics.
Actually no. A very very old kind of politics. Nasty and insidious in the extreme. It will be a sad day for British politics if they achieve their purge. And devastating for the economy if they get into power on the lie that Labour and Momentum are helping the ordinary people.
Momentum
A new kind of politics.
Actually no. A very very old kind of politics. Nasty and insidious in the extreme. It will be a sad day for British politics if they achieve their purge. And devastating for the economy if they get into power on the lie that Labour and Momentum are helping the ordinary people.
It's equally possible to be drifting away from the Tories, and therefore towards the only other viable choice for a government, numerically speaking.
The Momentum "plot" thing has been running since Corbyn was elected and it's hard to assess how big a scale it really is. For the record, I seriously hope that the reports are exaggerated.
The Momentum "plot" thing has been running since Corbyn was elected and it's hard to assess how big a scale it really is. For the record, I seriously hope that the reports are exaggerated.
Momentum isn't 'Labour' and neither are it's supporters, they are really Communists, as is Jeremy Corbyn, who long ago realised the Communist party in the UK was washed up, so he joined Labour which he has, throughout his political career fought against every thing they tried to achieve and now he and they are hoping totransform the party from the inside.
They see a way forward in exploiting the naivete of the young who are now teaching the very young - I read of a parent discovering his child had been asked to write, 'Five good things about Mr Corbyn !'
They see a way forward in exploiting the naivete of the young who are now teaching the very young - I read of a parent discovering his child had been asked to write, 'Five good things about Mr Corbyn !'
Roy Hattersley is not the only one though.
The problem with any Party leaning too far left or right is that whilst you please core voters you tend to alienate Middle England. and it is Middle England that decides the Government not core voters.
Is Labour becoming its own worst enemy? At the moment with the shockingly poor leadership from hapless May no I dont think they are. If the Tory's boot May into the long grass then I think Labour may have to be a little more careful
The problem with any Party leaning too far left or right is that whilst you please core voters you tend to alienate Middle England. and it is Middle England that decides the Government not core voters.
Is Labour becoming its own worst enemy? At the moment with the shockingly poor leadership from hapless May no I dont think they are. If the Tory's boot May into the long grass then I think Labour may have to be a little more careful
It'd dead easy, when elected as PM, he's going to abolish university tuition fees, take money off those evil, rich people and give it to the poor and needy, then he's going to make Britain's streets safe from knife-wielding Islamo-fascist psychopaths by disarming the police (though that may have been John Mc Donnell- but same thing) He will get rid of the UK's nuclear deterrent and disband MI5 and MI6, and show solidarity with Hamas and Hezbollah in their 'armed struggle' against Israeli 'colonialism' and he thinks nothing of switching off his phone and spending a day working on his allotment, because he's 'green' and it's the right thing to be, isn't it?
"So you must see, children, he's our man of your future."
"So you must see, children, he's our man of your future."
I'm no fan of the direction the Labour Party is moving towards, personally, I find Corbyn too far left for me.
But...I like the fact that he is one of the few politicians out there who has convictions and actually believes what he says.
I never get the impression that his words have been sanctioned by a focus group. He's basically Jacob Rees-Mogg, in a cheaper left wing suit.
And with regards to the swing to Labour in the last GE, perhaps people were understandably fed up with the austerity measures which seem to have no end point. The Conservatives are the party which should be galvanising prosperity by cutting taxes and expenditure - and seeing as we've not had a Labour government since 1979*, we should be swimming in cash now and enjoying the good life.
People are asking, why aren't we?
(*using TTT's argument that the Tony Blair government were Conservative in all but name).
But...I like the fact that he is one of the few politicians out there who has convictions and actually believes what he says.
I never get the impression that his words have been sanctioned by a focus group. He's basically Jacob Rees-Mogg, in a cheaper left wing suit.
And with regards to the swing to Labour in the last GE, perhaps people were understandably fed up with the austerity measures which seem to have no end point. The Conservatives are the party which should be galvanising prosperity by cutting taxes and expenditure - and seeing as we've not had a Labour government since 1979*, we should be swimming in cash now and enjoying the good life.
People are asking, why aren't we?
(*using TTT's argument that the Tony Blair government were Conservative in all but name).
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