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Thread #166394   Message #4001293
Posted By: punkfolkrocker
20-Jul-19 - 10:48 AM
Thread Name: Labour - the party of Remain
Subject: RE: Labour - the party of Remain
Cont... [well I thought I'd posted the finished version I'd just proofread...????]...



The far right are exploiting and capitalising on Labour's internal rifts and media exagerated strife.

But they are also providing a more welcoming home
for woking class folks who are being abandoned and excluded by the modern increasingly middle class [oxbridge] Labour party..

Corbyn's successor needs to be one of 'us',
not yet another one of 'them'..
Labour needs a younger leader who has worked up from ordinary roots via the world of work and self education / adult education..
not exclusively student union politics...
A new leader with less baggage of the past for the right wing media to exploit,
and portray as another terrorist loving 'marxist bogeyman/woman'...

This does not rquire the sheding of core Labour principles.
But presentaion and image of a new leader matters in this dumbed down age of the cult of personality...