Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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Yvette Cooper, one of Labour’s clutch of leadership hopefuls, believes that the party must be more pro business. The only circumstances in which people vote Labour for business is if the Tories have messed up. Because Labour’s core vote is not among business, it is among the mass of working people at all levels whose jobs are critical to the functioning of an organised society, but where their pay is limited by the nature of the job and wealth will never be the outcome. Teachers, train drivers, power workers, bin men, motorway engineers, airline pilots and countless more make up the mass of the voting population. That is where the Labour party is rooted and those roots go right down to the disadvantaged and the vulnerable. They have stopped voting Labour and in millions of cases they have stopped voting. It is with that vast multitude that Labour has to reconnect. Of course some business people and even business leaders will come aboard, but that is a bonus. It is not where Labour’s future lies.

The Bankers, estate agents, City lawyers and accountants, the billionaires, the entrepreneurs, old money and all the fingers in the capital pie will for the most part always vote Tory. There are too few of them to share between two parties and if Labour seeks to cosy up and become a pinkish Tory party with a more exciting goody bag it will never see power again. If it can inspire the working population and rally it to the Labour cause and define that cause clearly so that turnout rises to nudge the eighties, it will enjoy a landslide in England as big as that of the SNP in Scotland. So Yvette Cooper has a choice. She must reconnect to Labour’s roots and stop speaking like a Tory. Or she can become one.

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There are now two major migrant crises in flow involving boats. One is in the Mediterranean and the other is in the Andaman Sea. Both involve people fleeing terror, persecution or poverty. Europe is rescuing those it finds but has no idea what to do with the rescued or where they are to go. In Asia the policy appears to be more or less to let desperate people drift on the high seas until they either starve or drown.

The latest European initiative promulgates sinking migrant boats before anybody boards them. More bombing? That is all the West does now; bombing. In spite of the fact that it solves nothing in the long term and appears ineffective in the short term. What is needed is a recognition that much of this crisis is due to misguided Western foreign policy and the rest of it is due to the widening inequalities and real suffering caused to the have nots in the headlong dash for globalization. The West is driving that too. Thus it is that it will soon have to face up to the fact that it will have to take these desperate people in. Most of them anyway and shared everywhere. No exceptions or excuses.

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Shia Militias are said to be rushing to Ramadi, where Iraqi forces have been routed by another IS advance. This shambles of a failed state is testament to the almost total ineptitude of Bush and Blair when they launched a war on a false premise without an exit strategy or a coherent blueprint for the rebuilding of a nation which they had gleefully bust apart. It is impossible to predict where this is now going and where it will end. All than can be said for sure is that the suffering of innocents will go on and much more blood will flow.

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Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, has warned Labour that it must return to being the party of ordinary working people. Jon Cruddas is calling for a radical rethink as the party faces, in his view, its greatest crisis ever. These two men are saying what ordinary voters are saying. It is no longer clear what the Labour Party is for, who it champions and to what principles it adheres.

As this blog posted a couple of days ago, the party of labour has become a muddle of capital, labour, aspiration, filthy rich and trying to be trendy and is led by people who have never done an honest day’s work. It is so far to the centre that it sits almost on top of the Tories. I have called the New Labour project Thatcher’s greatest achievement. Labour is perhaps thatcherlite today, awash with micro policies to cover this that and the other, but empty of mission and barren of soul.

Jon Cruddas has also pointed out the before long English MPs will have a veto over everything which affects England, which in practice is almost all of it, unless devolved to the nations. And in England the Tories have a majority of over a hundred over Labour. He and others are pointing out that no longer can Labour rely on Wales and Scotland to put them in power. They have to win in England and if they continue to see their future through the prisms of Islington and Hampstead, Labour will never see power again.

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UKIP achieved nearly four million votes. For a one man band that is a remarkable achievement. That our democracy is so organised as to deny the party any seats bar 1, when the SNP with one and a half million votes get 56 seats and the Liberal Democrats get 8 for two and a half million votes, shows not only how ridiculous our voting system is but how it is deliberately skewed to reach outcomes according to distribution and not to volume. In other words it can call itself all sorts of things as long as the word democracy is not included.

It is not surprising that the one man in this UKIP band, Nigel Farage, has been a touch erratic since this bitter disappointment. The party did after all get the third highest number of votes. One Seat!? Having first resigned then re-instated himself, he is now faced with a chorus of demands from political nonentities and eurosceptic cheque books to either go on holiday or go altogether. He should stand firm, because without him UKIP will not be able to stand at all.