Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
All he's ever interested in when it comes to politics is whacking the Labour party and keeping quiet when the weekly, or sometimes daily, bad news story hits the Conservative party.
Over the last week or so, Labour have shown once again why my vote will be going to them in the General Election on nothing more than anti Tory grounds - there's barely anything about the party these days which fires me with any enthusiasm. That said, maybe there would be if the current version of Labour actually stood for anything - the few policies they've come out with since the 2019 election have nearly all been shelved or watered down.
Regarding the Rochdale by election, Labour were in a bit of a damned if they do, damned if they don't position, but, that said, I cannot be more critical of them than to say they looked like torys yesterday morning as they sent someone out to do the media rounds saying they were sticking with Azhar Ali and then ten hours later they weren't as they finally arrived at the decision they should have made in the first place.
In my experience, people like pipster are wasting their time trying to stir up a party political argument on here on subjects where Labour are clearly in the wrong because the large majority of left leaning people are quick enough to criticise the party themselves anyway. It's an attitude which can often cost the party at the ballot box, but I'd prefer it to what happens on the other side where tory supporters too often fall in behind the party line automatically, something which, certainly since 2019, has often involved defending the indefensible.