28-05-2017, 07:30 PM
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Labour Is Finished
Interesting article which explains the severity of Loony Labour's demise. It's not a case of blaming it all on Corbyn."they still do not get the yawning, abyssal depth of the crisis they face. They still don’t see that their party isn’t merely in trouble; it’s finished, over, kaput. Labour is a zombie party, a Frankenstein creature patched together from dead slogans and middle-class anti-Tory angst; a living-dead entity utterly incapable of making a connection with the living."
"This is what’s wrong with Labour: it has become the party of pity and welfarism and concern for ‘The Vulnerable’ while its old voters remain self-respecting, driven individuals who want to work and be comfortable and be autonomous. Labour wants to look after the working classes; the working classes want to look after themselves. Labour activists focus virtually all their campaigning energy on propping up the welfare state; ordinary people are far more interested in work and wealth. The divide today is between a party that pities the poor and a poor who flat-out refuse to be pitied. Brexit — glorious Brexit — brought this divide into glaring relief: to avoid economic calamity and fascism we must take refuge in the EU, said Labour’s fearful, paternalistic leaders; no thanks, we will take a risk and strike out for greater political autonomy, said their more confident old core base."
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/0...-blame-corbyn/
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