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Thread #159827   Message #3801586
Posted By: Jim Carroll
22-Jul-16 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
"Keith does not need a stick, the labour Party does a very good job of beating up on itself."
Only by embracing right-wing policies - look at what happened to the Irish Labour Party - gone, and never called me mother.
RIGHT WING DIRTY TRICKS
Keith does need a stick, like Voltaire's quote on God, "If labour didn't have problems, it would be necessary to invent some" - and he has.
One thing is certain, Blair's 'New Labour' has been an abysmal failure - Labour doesn't need a "strong" leadership, it needs principles and a strong commitment to them - a return to its Socialist base.
It's worst problem is it is virtually indistinguishable from the Tories.
looking as Siddiqu's gripes, her main bone of contention appears to be that her flavour of the month, Edna the Eagle, is out of the running.
Jim Carroll