Originally Posted by
Splott Dave
I've not yet been back a strawberry season (Twitter can still not believe their luck) and you're concerned already? Was it something that I said?
Okay to be serious for a bit, yes I do. Snakes shed their skins, moths turn into butterflies and all political parties reach a point where they need to re-invent themselves. As an experiment Blairism was an unmitigated disaster, that hi-jacked a complete party, repackaged it, threw away its core values and principles, tossed the Palestinian cause for self-determination into the trash cart and embraced full-blown corporate Zionism. People were sick of seeing MP candidates selected from an approved list, mentored to, and then parachuted, like Stephen Kinnock was, into seats that could be won by a corpse with a red rosette on. They're fed up with not being able to interview and select candidates that are policy and principle driven, as opposed to using their constituency as a convenient stop-off point on the way to a gravy train job after politics has been disposed of. What we're seeing (in my humble opinion) is a realignment of the whole Labour party, with 172 old guard Blairites, some more than others, all joining in to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn's journey against the wishes of hundreds of thousands who have recently joined Labour precisely for what he represents. Nothing succeeds like success, so the old adage goes and when you have momentum it is easier to keep invigorating attracting and energizing people to something that they have some faith in.
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