The Parliamentary Labour Party, which its stalwarts claim nearly met its doom under the ultra left Michael Foot, is now having\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tantrums about how the Shadow Cabinet was chosen and appointed. Never mind the detail; they are behaving like children. They mounted a rebellion and\u00a0lost spectacularly\u00a0and it is now time to knuckle down or get out. Michael Foot failed because during a time of change in the political weather when the centre moved sharply to the right, he took his party left. But now there is a change in the political weather again in full swing, with the centre moving sharply to the left. Although not in government Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of that shift in the UK and has attracted to the cause\u00a0unprecedented numbers of young people, well educated and clever, who know and care nothing about Michael Foot, Trotsky et al, but\u00a0who see clearly that\u00a0the current economic model, which New Labour helped fashion,\u00a0cannot sustain and is grossly unfair.<\/p>\n
May, who turns out to be nobody’s fool, has followed Corbyn and moved the whole Tory party\u00a0 to the left of anything ever thought of by Tony Blair. It is well to the left of the\u00a0squawking right of the PLP. Utterly befuddled by the new political reality, these sad and sorry\u00a0soundbite politicians\u00a0of a yesterday now passed, call for ‘effective opposition’. They cannot see that Corbyn is more effective than any modern opposition leader. Not only has this 2015 Tory\u00a0government had to abandon more legislation than any\u00a0post WWII\u00a0predecessor, it has had to completely reposition itself in the political spectrum. Because of a political agenda driven by\u00a0Corbyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Parliamentary Labour Party, which its stalwarts claim nearly met its doom under the ultra left Michael Foot, is now having\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tantrums about how the Shadow Cabinet was chosen and appointed. Never mind the detail; they are behaving like children. They mounted a rebellion and\u00a0lost spectacularly\u00a0and it is now time to knuckle down or get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10990"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10996,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions\/10996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}