Coming home to Corbyn and of Wales, centre parties and other thoughts......

...I laugh as I read the Observer about a new centre party. It is founded by millionaires and will be pro business. I am not sure how it breaks the mould when we have had the main political parties peddling that lie from 1979 till the election of Corbyn in 2015. To a great extent the anti neoliberal approach and ecosocialist agenda had been beta tested by the Green surge of 2014 2015. Corbyn has shifted the middle of the road and the rise of Momentum with irs 40,. 000 members means that a new agenda is forged.

With virtual total control of the Labour Party Corbyn is now able to make it a true member based democratic organisation. There can be no excuse for not having mandatory reselectionn for every MP and for every Councillor. In Wales real signs begin of a powerful Corbynista wing creating an alchemical process of renewal. There is now real speculation that a Scottish like renewal of Labour will begin here. In Wales there are 2000 Momentum members and I begin to detect an emergence of an outlook that is about Welsh self determination, and is of Green and Ecosocialist philisophy in form.. Plaid have the McEvoy problem at present and there are real threats of alleged legal action being circulated by his trained attack dogs that do much to silence criticism. It's no accident that Anne Greagsby is now behaving in a way within Plaid that she did bith in n the Greens and in the days when she worked as a staffer for Julie Morgan. The ego of the Broflake of the North were much wounded when Neil McEvoy chose not to join 'Jocs' UKIP like Frankenstein party of the centre nationalist right. Perhaps the likes of the " Big G" and his conspiracy theories were too much even for the ego of the big McE. The men who applaud him. laud him and share his populism and prejudices fear women, the trans gendered and all approaches and lens outside their own. I have met them by the bucket load AND they are afraid of women, loath feminism and diversity AND diffetence. Their social conservatism and insecurity makes them who they are and it is so easy for them to hide behind the defence mechanisms of the alt right with its limited and simplistic jargon.
Welsh Labour is far from perfect but real possibilities are now happening. The coming Deputy Leadership campaign will be most revealing. The post Carwyn Jones Wales will be a true test of reform both within Welsh Labour and of its future.

Following on from the war of McEvoy^s ego we will see which way Plaid moves. Leanne Woods excellent ecosocialist legacy will be tested as the civil war between McEvoys acolytes and the rest breaks out. Right wing populists usually set out to destroy and I am afraid that the socialists and Ecosocialists within Plaid are about to find that out. I give you some Sunday thoughts as my hangover fades and I consider possibilities and futures..
..
It is quite clear now and the hour is getting late. The choice now is how the major figures of the Left respond to the next election. I could imagine both Leanne Wood and Caroline Lucas being able to cooperate and provide critical support for a Corbyn government. The role of the Greens and Plaid may well be to introduce and influence radical policies in that government. The 40000 members of the Green Party and the Ecosocialist wing in Plaid will be essential to keep a left wing Labour government honest. However the issues of devolution, a Welsh identity and that of Europe need a socialist and green approach and critique.

In any case the post Corbyn left Labour Party will need their input to retain its credentials and outlook. It is refreshing break from the Blairite tendency but it really is getting late and it is this that has led me to my decision to join Momentum and with it the Labour Party. I have no issue with the Green Party and it's wonderful and thoughtful agenda but I grow tired of the Greens inability and acceptance of having to be ' nice ' to nasty little fascists and those who glory in an alt right outlooks. I will maintain my friendship and emotional support for the excellent people I met there. However I have repeatedly warned of the dangers of staying silent and accepting prejudiced and ignorant behaviours and outlooks.

This has been no conversion of a Damascian kind on the road to Ystradgynlais. It has been a "slow train coming" of reasoned thought and debate both within myself and with a range of other people. On January 29th I joined Momentum and with it the Labour Party.. I have now served my probationary period within Labour and I look to the future. Corbyn is an honourable decent man who has been right on most things. He scares the establishment and that is what is important. I want to see Corbyn out No 10 and John Macdonnel at number 11 because I want to see the paradigm change and with tbatmany new things become possible. This is what breaking the mould is really about and it is only this way that new deals for Wales, Scotland and for the excluded and the oppressed to be empowered. There is no other way and the long game he is playing on Brexit is the best possible solution.. Perhaps my decision will surprise many of you and annoy others. As I have said this a new decade for me and I feel hope return to me. I have no illusions just how many challenges lay ahead in joining Welsh Labour. However a very decent man with first class instincts on Animal rights , socialism and fairness to all makes it the best way and there is a world still to win...no centre party will ever make that possible.. I have always been an Ecosocialist. The real decision was how to use my beliefs; faith and passion in the most effective way.

“Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden"