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Agreed.
At our Compass sponsored meeting in my town on Saturday afternoon, Labour party members were left in no doubt that this is what people felt about them – that they were in disarray and not focussing on the day job at all.
It is a shame because the Labour members I saw there were decent people who could see the problems themselves and you felt that they were totally stymied by it.
But what also stuck me looking at the votes coming in – the margins of success for those who were voted in were not massive enough to be conclusive.
Now that is something to find heart in.
Very droll, it would be funny if it were not a serious matter.
Where on earth do we go from here I wonder?
I wish I knew
I think the Labour Party, as we endearingly have known it, is in its death throes. As indeed is the Tory Party, but they are ‘an unconscionable time dying’ and seem to have better geriatric care than Labour. We’re witnessing the demise of the traditional Right – Left parties across Europe. This could / should be good news if something better arises out of the ashes of these out-dated institutions – it just won’t be in my life-time.
I am hoping it happens in mine
I am 59
it’s all right for you kids. I’m 70
Plenty of time to go yet then
Likewise Richard , I’m 57 and hope to live to see something ‘better’ emerge but I can also see that the ‘moral arc’ is steeper and longer and this may not happen.
it could be that we are indeed in the death throes of the Party System and need a new system just as the party system emerged out of feudalism and became a parliamentary system emerging out of an oligarchy of barons, earls, bishops.
Parliament is now subservient to global capital and politics has become depoliticised compared to the ‘golden age’ of 1945-75 when politics was perceived as shaping society.
Simon, we are all subservient, Parliament included, to darker forces if this article in today’s Observer/Guardian is anything to go by.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy
well worth the time it takes to read. I went on the Breibart website a few weeks ago to see Farage thanking them for their help in the referendum. Sinister.
You missed the NHS – the one thing everyone unites around and mistake for a massive vote-winner.