Tuesday 16 August 2016

Looking back from August 16 2016 to August 2015..where are they now?

Written August 2915
I have just come back from shopping . I am watching the news and have seen the Liz Kendall interview again. She looks unsettled, anxious and uncomprehendingly unaware of her dinosaur status. She is rude, keeps interrupting the interviewer and is waiting for the Messiah St Gordon to anoint someone to slay the anti Christ Jeremy Corbyn.While we were having breakfast Hayley said that she had noticed that thediscourse had changed that even interviewers on tbe BBC were challenging the market orthodoxy..What I have noticed is that the Blairite tendency can no longer even say what the basis of their loyalty to the Labour party is other than that they have always belonged to it. I cannot see any reason why people like Liz Kendall do not join the Liberal Democrats, they are just as insipid. I dont think they will because they know that if they did they would not get elected.I think it is correct that the discourse has changed, the collapse of Labour in Scotland, the futility of austerity lite policies, the rise of the Greens, the Corbyn phenomena, social media, 38 degrees, another angry voice , the transition movement and many other currents are converging. Molly Scott Cato has speculated about Green Red cooperation as I do here.However in Neath and Port Talbot I see little change occurring. The Labour Party with a few honourable exceptions has centralist , monolithic and reactionary tendencies. It has a monopoly on Neath Town Council where nearly half of its members are Borough councillors as well. Our new Labour MP for Neath missed the vote in Parliament on Welfare cuts and Stephen 'Trident' Kinnock abstained, in the Castle Ward by election occurring in Neath on September 10 the Labour party have selected a candidate who is already a Borough Councillor for Neath North, has a full time job and is now expected to represent a Town Council Ward in addition. The Welsh Labour Party will take years to reform and will resist all attempts to be, popular, radical, de-centralist, socialist and of the people. Short of mass walk out or expulsion Welsh Labour remains a party of power and dominance.....its roots have withered on the vine. The future in Wales for radicals remains within, the grasp of the Welsh Greens, the Ecosocialists in Plaid, the fledgling Cobynites and the community activists. Another World is possible.

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