After Corbyn......

After Corbyn....the Labour Party is a complex organism with a complex psyche. I understand it's obsessions, traumas and compulsions. It's shadow and Id reveals all it denies, has experienced or desires. Negotiating its highways and byways at times resemble a psychoanalyrical encounter or a cultural tour through the last 120 years.

Despite it all the sense of denial and conflicting paradigms of its members and elected representatives is most instructire. There is a shocking inability that I often notice at meetings to understand the simple premise that all councillors and Members of Parliament come from the membership, is accountable to the membership and should prior to every election be selected from the membership. Often when raised at meetings I will hear the plaintiff cry " we are a broad church" implying quite simply, " Shut up I have been elected and am here for life. You Lefty...get it clear." The truth is that Jeremy Corbyn has changed the game the Labour Party is being democratized and made clearly socialist. It's officials are the servants of its members not it's masters.. The party has reached 600,000 members and both Starmer and Long~Bailey are making encouraging sounds of the continued need for further devolution. It is time for an Independent Labour Party in both Wales and Scotland, the recognition of nationhood for the countries of the British Isles. Emily Thornbury's and Lisa Nancy's comments on the SNP and of self determination in Catalonia and elsewhere shockingly ignorant and outdated. The British state is dead and Labour must become a non unionist eco-socialist party commited to dramatic constitutional reform, a written constitution and proportional representation. Lisa Nandy's flotation with the social conservatism of blue Labour is unhelpful and reactionary. Labour's decline in the heart lands go back and prior to Blair. Socialism is about empowerment and decentralisation. It involves the principles of eco-socialism and subsidiarity. It's about diversity, respect and toleration of difference. It's about celebration of multiple identities and of respect . It's about feminism and the varieties of ethnicity. 'Listening to people' does not mean excepting racism, homophobia or prejudice. Dawn Butler on Novara Media last night, called Labour's job the CORE approach..CampaignOrganise, Reform and Educate. Without Corbyn none of this would have been possible. Thank you Jeremy you have drawn so many of us to Labour and brought so many to politics. You have made Eco Socialism a central tenet of the Labour Party . No one else could have done it and you have our affection, respect and gratitude. In time you will be recognised for your achievements and the viscious attacks upon you seen for their real purpose. Thank you Jeremy Corbyn for your caring, courage and basic humanity..for your love of people, learning, and literature. You have changed the game and your legacy lives on....