I am aware that I am listed as speaking at a Labour Fringe event at lunchtime today. I have to offer my apologies. I have to be at a meeting with my family later today that means I cannot be in Liverpool.
This will be the first Labour Party conference I will have missed for some time. It also exudes the sense that it may be an important one. I hope so. The UK needs alternative thinking. And as John Harris argues in the Guradian this morning, that thinking needs to be both radical, and rooted in the possible. I believe that is possible. That is why I suggested a range of tax policies yesterday.
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How exactly a crowd which sounds moronic, even if it isn’t, chanting ‘oooohh jjerrr emmy cooor byn’ expects to be taken seriously as a political movement, and government in waiting, is a mystery to me.
Jeremy Corbyn is not a messiah. He’s not a very naughty boy either. But Labour Party supporters who reject all the traditional strengths of collective decision making, and seek another Blair to lead them to some fairy tale promised land, are going to disappear down the toilet of history I think.
A few words of sense from you, Richard at a fringe meeting, would not have gone amiss, but I can’t see it would turn this aimless rabble into a viable political force.
Saor Alba.
Corbyn is not a messiah. He is a very good mobiliser, and that is not a bad thing in itself. Destructured party systems need mobilisers. There’s good and bad. And awful.
The crowd is not moronic, as you accept as a possibility.
So really, what are tou saying? Not much, beyond your preferences and prejudices. Wherein, your self-confessed ignorance is, perhaps, in large part merely rhetorical.
“Corbyn’s” Labour offers more than you imply. A return to rather moderate social democracy. It ought be unremarkable. Sadly it isn’t.