Labour - What is the Point? Part 2

Just when I began to think that irony was dead I took a look at the Labour Party's constitution.The first thing that jumped up to meet me was the description of the Party as a 'democratic socialist party,' and the next was the statement 'The work of the party shall be under the direction and control of party conference.'

 

I find such things tragic, because my first instinct is hilarity and then it strikes me how dangerous these people are and I realise that tragedy is indeed very closely related to farce. Last weeks Labour Party conference voted to return the Post Office to public control and the leadership immediately announced that they had no intention of taking a blind bit of notice of the decision of their Party's conference and would not be committing to any such thing. So much for a democracy and so much for their own rules that "the work of the party shall be under the direction and control of the conference."

 

So, democratic? Not a chance, that kind of party management used to be called Stalinism, although in relation to this group of Labour elitists I think a Furher concept is more apt. Socialist? I don't think I even need to comment on that one. Under the control of conference? Don't be daft. Labour takes the advice of Arthur Balfour who said he would rather take the advice of his valet than that of the party conference.

 

I write this on the day that the postal workers are taking industrial action, this was a week after the fire fighters. Labour refused to either support or endorse either of these actions, indeed since the election of Blair Labour have refused to support any form of industrial action for any reason.  

 

Anyone thinking of supporting the Better Together campaign in the coming independence referendum should give serious thought as to not only what they are supporting, but the type of personnel who they are voting for. This is a party that has abandoned the working people, the poor and dispossessed of this country in favour of millionaires and the people they call 'middle England' and who have made common cause with the most right wing neoliberal government in living memory. What about middle Scotland? What about the health and education sectors they have been slavish in privatising? What about the benefit cap they supported? Labour are quite simply lost. You have been warned

 

 

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