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Sunday, May 17th, 2015Labour: Back To Its Roots
Sunday, May 17th, 2015Len 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.