Dear All
There is a quiet war going on in the Labour Party, the war
tends to shows that there isn’t just a difference of opinion but of who should
lead the Labour Party. The Labour Party has been brought to its knees by the
right wing of the party. These people are the careerists who can into power
through the university route, people such as Blair. They used the fact that
there was a traditional Labour vote to extend their influence and more
careerists joined and took advantage of the fact.
The Labour Party in Scotland got wiped out in 2015 and
2016, it was dramatic, and continual evidence of the fact that people were
willing to reject the party because there was a lack of help from the elected
people. Having been brought to its knees, the way became clear for someone like
Jeremy Corbyn to win the leadership with a big majority.
His election was a rejection of the careerists who failed
not just the party but the people. In response to the right wing, the group
momentum came along, they are supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and anti what some
call the ‘Blair faction’ or ‘progress’ as it is better known. In Scotland , the
Corbyn factor in terms of leadership isn’t installed and the party has Kezia
Dugdale. Momentum wants her replaced, and although she has a few allies, the
winds of change and the determination of momentum aren’t going away anytime
soon.
In order to change the Labour Party in Scotland, the
momentum crowd need to replace the ‘gatekeepers’, these people are living on borrowed
time, when Edinburgh MP Ian Murray created a stir by resigning and
refusing to work with Jeremy Corbyn, it was a betrayal, done publicly. Murray is an ally of
Kezia Dugdale and her anti Corbyn stance hasn’t been forgotten or indeed
forgive; forget unity, it doesn’t exist.
If you are in the Labour Party, you hold a membership but
there are two Labour Parties running within it, either you are pro Corbyn or
pro Progress, and to be fair, you might not like either option because there
isn’t much in the way of middle ground.
Edinburgh MP Ian Murray is said to be becoming the Chairman
of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party, he got the position due to the help
of a group of moderate Scottish Labour peers, ‘moderate’ is a termed used by
the Blair faction. If there is a Corbyn government, it will require
considerably more Labour MPs to be elected n Scotland , and given the state of
the party, it isn’t going to be in the numbers required, for there to be more
Labour seats, the SNP has to keep doing the same disastrous course under Nicola
Sturgeon. There is a possible two seats which could fall in Glasgow, GSW and GE,
these hang by a thread; the SNP know this hence they are deeply worried as
their squealing like pigs diatribe of late shows.
Mhairi Black’s recent plea for ‘progressive’ Labour
supporters to work with the SNP was an attempt it seems to me to ‘manage’ the
voters’ intentions to keep SNP cult members in a job.
The SNP is shitting themselves silly, over their future employment
prospects, rather like waiting for the axe to fall, as you are kneeling at the
block! They know it is a case of when
and not if, they thought they were the embedded new establishment and now they
have a wake up call in 2017.
So, what does Edinburgh MP Ian Murray becoming Chairman
of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party mean?
It means nothing, it is a temp measure, finger in the dyke,
it is a one step forward and two back because the Labour Party and Momentum have
an agenda, they will keep pushing and pushing. The hope for the Blair faction
is to attempt to wait out Corbyn so they can get back to ‘normal’, but the
genie is out of the bottle. Corbyn in my opinion was never meant to be Prime
Minister; his job was to groom a new generation to carry on his legacy to
return the Labour Party to socialism.
Infighting in the Labour Party should keep them busy for
quite some time, there has to be a clear out, and it is doubtful that there can
be a return for the party for quite some considerable time in meaningful
numbers. There is always the question of the party activist base having
collapsed, this is a serious problem.
Finally, it isn’t a viable strategy to base your future
success on a stale SNP who have press the panic button after their support has plummeted
and gone into freefall.
Imagine getting elected because you were hated less than the
other lot, this is where the Labour Party in Scotland is sitting at the moment!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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