I have written three blogs this morning.
And published none.
I might take a little thinking time.
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Do it – good time to sit back and reflect after the intensity of the last week
Look after yourself
I’m just going to be writing something else
Sitting back? What is that?
Surely 4 blogs and published one 🙂
Or 3 blogs and lied 😀
If you haven’t already done so it’s also worth reading John Harris’s piece on future/fate of Labour, which pretty much incorporates many of the themes and points that you and others have made on your blogs these past few days. It may be the definitive piece on the subject, I think.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/29/whoever-leader-is-labour-may-never-recover-crisis
I blogged it
We agree
Seems Tories are now intent on tearing themselves apart. Gove standing against Boris surely splits the Brexit vote as regards Tory leader. Gives May a seemingly clearer run. Which if it were so makes the job of the Labour and finding a credible leader even more difficult. Assuming May plays to a centrist card. Had the Tories gone for Boris then I believe anyone other than Corbyn stood a reasonable chance but May is likely to be a much tougher proposition.
We need thinking time but at the same time the facts on which we think and draw conclusions are changing rapidly. Difficult time to get very big decisions right.
Did you have time to hear the interview on the Today programme this morning with the only MP to speak against the PLP no confidence motion? His name escapes me. He is very far from being a ‘Corbyn at all costs’ man and very well worth listening to and reflecting upon in my view.
Did not hear
Anyone say who it was?
There were two MPs who spoke out in the PLP meeting for Corbyn. One of them has now said he should resign. I can’t remember who the other was, though.
Always good to do but I can’t help wishing you had done so earlier …
I did
I got it right
Of that I am quite sure
Although you have imputed all the wrong reasons
What bemuses me is I wrote in the article in the Guardian that the country needs a more radical programme than Jeremy and John were willing to commit to
Did you notice?
Yes, I did. And if you’d taken this thinking time beforehand you might have thought that limiting yourself to discussing policy without in any way appearing to take sides either in the timing of your contributions or in their content would have protected your objective, non-aligned position.
Which I’m sure you have compromised now with some people, unfortunately. You may not wish to have appeared to take a side in this coup but by commenting in the manner you did and at the time you did has, I’m afraid, created in others the perception that you did take sides.
My sole point being that some time spent considering these possibilities may have caused you to act differently.
Dammit, being described as the author of Corbynomics meant people thought I had taken sides – didn’t you notice?
And I did not take part in a coup
I made some measured observations
Which I stand by and I would not have acted differently
That sticker on your book, Richard (‘by the creator of Corbynomics’), I assume then that was a publisher decision to ‘enhance sales’? Or could you have told them not to use it? If the latter is true then you do bear a little responsibility for the identification; if the former, certainly not at all.
I knew nothing about it until I saw it
Which by then was too late – it was on thousands of copies
Looks like the Unions have now given some thought to the situation and the process that now needs to take place.
http://labourlist.org/2016/06/respect-corbyns-authority-trade-union-leaders-warn-mps/
Curious, given all the extreme and yet ridiculous antics the right and established groups have done, so much so, detailed and historical articles have to be written,-curious indeed…Seems the same attention to discrediting is being currently done to strip those who voted as Brexits. Odd, but expected, lets hope those that continue to plead establish system is the best…..have not ck or found out how taxpayers of all stripes (except income) fair under the dubious and thus secret set of really phony trade agreements —see bilaterals.org for complete details and analysis on all global trade deals……
Since when did anyone trust those who took bank bailout money out of their accounts and made unfair bailouts of taxpayer monies too…..apparently we have plenty of dupes……