I was reading a Matthew
Engel`s article asking the question ..Are we seeing the strange Death
of Labour England? He based his approach on a hook called " The
Strange Death of Liberal England by Dangerfield . IT dealt with the
decline of the Liberal Party at the turn of the 20th century .
Between 1906 and 1924 the old Liberal Party went from 400 mps to 40.
I think we are in a very different situation in 2017. It's true that
old style corporate conservative Labour that we know so well in
Wales is in trouble. However Momentum and other groups rather show is
an evolutionary beginning. However the attraction is of UKIP to
traditional Labour voters ..It can never with its economic outlook
offer along term option.. UKIP is right wing, conservative and has no
long term interest in a powerful working class. In the end the scales
will fall from their eyes as It fall from the eyes of the Trump
voters in the rust belt.....Reality will dawn. The role of the Green
Party will be similar to the relationship between the Communist Party
and the Labour Party was for the early 20th century. The difference
will be that there will be no Soviet Style Society to destroy the
Greens or indeed a Eastern European block like the Warsaw Pact.
The job of the Greens
will be an intellectual ,radical source of ideas for the Left and to
jeep Labour honest. Labour is not in danger of death, it is evolving,
transforming and building ...It must keep its nerve and not to ape
UKIP lite policies. We live in an age of false consciousness ...The
Left must keep its nerve. The future is being formed... I include
comments from two friends on my speculations I wrote while travelling
in by the X50 this morning..
One commented ….....
“Well said martyn. I
recall someone saying around 1990 - to much fanfare among the neo
liberal intelligentsia - that 'history had ended'. How wrong he was!
Brexit and Trump's election doesn't mean history has ended and the
alt right and their fellow travellers have established permanent
hegemony. The progressive forces of resistance are growing and are in
good health ;)
“
and another But
will the Labour Party survive in its present form? It currently has a
left wing head (Corbyn) and a right-wing body (PLP and Welsh Red
Tories). How long will this Frankenparty continue? Is it desirable
that it does? The Phoenix rises from the ashes of itself, not
from a still living but crippled body. For me and many others Labour
is the party that bailed out the banks in 2008, while doing nothing
to relieve the spiralling personal debts of millions and the many
small businesses faced with bankruptcy - after the Credit Crunch.
This made Labour a traitor to the people in my view. Personally, I'd
rather see the Labour Party die and be replaced with a socialistic
official opposition, such as Momentum. Or a new Progressive Party
incorporating the Greens, Plaid Cymru, and others (but not the Lib
Dems, due to Cl egg's treachery and Fallon's questionable stance on
LGBT+).”
Contributions were by
Leigh Richards and Graham Mallaghan.
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