Wee Ginger by Paul Kavanagh T
HE CONTEST for leader of UK Labour is geting into its
final stages now, and it’s looking increasingly likely that the Jim Murphy acolyte who won the party branch manager post in Scotland is going to have to make an accommodation with Jeremy Corbyn - a real socialist as opposed to the Labour politicians mouthing the word with distaste who have dominated the party for decades.
If nothing else we’re going to have fun watching as the tatered remnants of the Labour party in Scotland try and pretend that they’ve rediscovered their socialist soul.
The prospect of a Corbyn victory has brought the Labour establishment to a full on nervous breakdown.
Jezza wasn’t supposed to be a serious candidate, he was only ever on the ballot in order to give a wee sop to the last few socialists
Jezza wasn’t supposed to be a serious candidate, he was only ever on the ballot in order to give a wee sop to the last few socialists remaining in Labour and to pretend that there was really some sort of debate over policy beyond the triangulating nostrums of the supposedly mainstream candidates.
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remaining in Labour and to pretend that there was really some sort of debate over policy beyond the triangulating nostrums of the supposedly mainstream candidates. He was the pet socialist in a playpen, the big boys and girls were going to give him a pat on the head, stroke his funny litle socialist beard, and then they’d get back to sooking up to the Daily Mail as normal. But that’s not what happened. Instead there was a mass outbreak of Corbynmania as ordinary Labour supporters in England realised that there was a chance they might be able to wrest their party back.
John McTernan, Blair’s former spin doctor, has been spinning furiously, begging everyone and anyone who will listen - that would be mostly the BBC to be honest - not to vote for Jezza because it will be an uter disaster. John knows all about leading the Labour party to disaster because it was his campaign strategy which reduced Labour’s 41 Scotish MPs to Ian Murray, the honourable member of Red Morningside. And he only got in because Tories voted for him out of pity.
You can tell that the Labour establishment is seriously spooked by the prospect of a Corbyn victory because they’re
re-running the Scotish independence referendum campaign. Labour dinosaurs have been troted out to give dire warnings of the cataclysms which will ensue if party members vote for Jeremy. By the time this article is published, some Labour grandee will have warned that if Jeremy gets elected he won’t be able to use the pound.
Tony Blair has already announced that the election of Jezza would be a disaster. Why the Labour hierarchy thinks that this is helping their case isn’t entirely clear. Corbyn is on public record as saying that he believes the Iraq War was illegal, and has not ruled out puting Blair on trial for war crimes. It’s not really too difficult to see why Tone doesn’t think this is a good idea. The best thing Blair could do would
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