The coup in Turkey may prove an historic tragedy.Erdogan aspires to be the modern successor to the Ottoman Sultan.We face the the loss of a potentially democratic,secular and prosperous Islamic nation to a despotic,mysoginist,Islamist, demi Caliphate controlled by a paranoid dictator and his bully boys.
Turkey as tragedy .Labour Leadership tragedy moving to farce.Trump[f] farce looking to become tragedy.
What can I say about the spiralling demise of the Party of my youth, the dying movement which brought us Opportunity,Emancipation,Education and a Universal Health Service.The propogator and defender of democracy and pluralism not just at home but throughout the old empire ans beyond.
Nick Cohen feels our pain https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/16/corbynism-sounds-death-knell-for-labour expressing it better than I.
I hope we are wrong.Ruth Davidson --a Scottish Tory-- sums up the current situation.
“That’s the difference between our two parties. Labour is still fumbling with its fly while the Tories are enjoying their post-coital cigarette – after withdrawing our massive Johnson.”
The Tories are in the second week of a new Prime Minister and government in place.
We cannot figure out how to dispatch Jeremy Corbyn and his brain-Seamus Milne.
Have yet to settle on a single leader to yield the sword.The two in the frame will not take a place in the Pantheon of Labour Heroes.This is the best we can offer!! But thanks anyway for the effort Angela and Owen.
Where did you say Ed Miliband is?
I grew up to Atlee,Bevan,Gaitskell,Wilson,Castle and Healy.Even the second rank Crossman,Crossland,Callaghan,Kinnock and Benn were giants compared to Miliband et al.
Tony Blair: Despite leading us to three election victories and almost fifteen years in " at least better than the Tories "government ;Iraq and your greed and self agrandiesment after you left office condemns you to the ignominy side of History.
Gordon brown I knew Dennis Healy,I respected Dennis Healy--you know the rest.It could have been so much better.
The withering of industrial unionism has replaced Erny Bevin,Hugh Scanlon,Jack Jones and Joe Gormley. with a blustering bully Len McClusky.He holds on to power by destroying effective democracy in his public sector union.He is determined to do the same to the Labour Party.
The union no longer provide ballast and there is no strength left in the parliamentary leadership.
An organisation that can be taken over by Corbyn and his crew had to be in a very ,very bad place.
I know King Cyclops is very old and living in the past.I have been told by old friends and activists "This is no longer the party you remember comrade" "We knew Jeremy when the party was the progressive force of UK politics and did not take him seriously enough to even think him a joke".
No longer. This coup against Corbyn will fail even if it wins.I worked in abrewery.This lot has proved it cannot organise the proverbial piss up.
Maybe tomorrow will bring a better day.
If Labour could recover from Ramsey McDonald maybe it could recover from Jeremy Corbyn.
I know its not the same.
Still too soon to die .
If we have to start again and build a new party of the left to replace Seamus Milne and his ilk on one side and the Tories on the other ,then so be it.
AVANTI
BY THE WAY
Turkey as tragedy .Labour Leadership tragedy moving to farce.Trump[f] farce looking to become tragedy.
What can I say about the spiralling demise of the Party of my youth, the dying movement which brought us Opportunity,Emancipation,Education and a Universal Health Service.The propogator and defender of democracy and pluralism not just at home but throughout the old empire ans beyond.
Nick Cohen feels our pain https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/16/corbynism-sounds-death-knell-for-labour expressing it better than I.
I hope we are wrong.Ruth Davidson --a Scottish Tory-- sums up the current situation.
“That’s the difference between our two parties. Labour is still fumbling with its fly while the Tories are enjoying their post-coital cigarette – after withdrawing our massive Johnson.”
The Tories are in the second week of a new Prime Minister and government in place.
We cannot figure out how to dispatch Jeremy Corbyn and his brain-Seamus Milne.
Have yet to settle on a single leader to yield the sword.The two in the frame will not take a place in the Pantheon of Labour Heroes.This is the best we can offer!! But thanks anyway for the effort Angela and Owen.
Where did you say Ed Miliband is?
I grew up to Atlee,Bevan,Gaitskell,Wilson,Castle and Healy.Even the second rank Crossman,Crossland,Callaghan,Kinnock and Benn were giants compared to Miliband et al.
Tony Blair: Despite leading us to three election victories and almost fifteen years in " at least better than the Tories "government ;Iraq and your greed and self agrandiesment after you left office condemns you to the ignominy side of History.
Gordon brown I knew Dennis Healy,I respected Dennis Healy--you know the rest.It could have been so much better.
The withering of industrial unionism has replaced Erny Bevin,Hugh Scanlon,Jack Jones and Joe Gormley. with a blustering bully Len McClusky.He holds on to power by destroying effective democracy in his public sector union.He is determined to do the same to the Labour Party.
The union no longer provide ballast and there is no strength left in the parliamentary leadership.
An organisation that can be taken over by Corbyn and his crew had to be in a very ,very bad place.
I know King Cyclops is very old and living in the past.I have been told by old friends and activists "This is no longer the party you remember comrade" "We knew Jeremy when the party was the progressive force of UK politics and did not take him seriously enough to even think him a joke".
No longer. This coup against Corbyn will fail even if it wins.I worked in abrewery.This lot has proved it cannot organise the proverbial piss up.
Maybe tomorrow will bring a better day.
If Labour could recover from Ramsey McDonald maybe it could recover from Jeremy Corbyn.
I know its not the same.
Still too soon to die .
If we have to start again and build a new party of the left to replace Seamus Milne and his ilk on one side and the Tories on the other ,then so be it.
AVANTI
BY THE WAY
Is the transfer window open .Perhaps we could buy Ruth Davidson to run for leader.
Curriculum vitae
Born November 10, 1978 Education Knowepark Primary School; Buckhaven High School; Edinburgh University
Career She worked as a radio journalist at the BBC, joining the Tory party in 2009 before being elected as an MSP in Glasgow in May 2011. She became leader of the Scottish party in November that year leading them to overtake Labour in the Scottish Elections.
Partner Jen Wilson
Career She worked as a radio journalist at the BBC, joining the Tory party in 2009 before being elected as an MSP in Glasgow in May 2011. She became leader of the Scottish party in November that year leading them to overtake Labour in the Scottish Elections.
Partner Jen Wilson
It reads like a Labour MP,except for that bit about joining the Conservative party.
Feisty,smart ,funny lesbian.She doesn't do tea.The Scottish TU leaders should love being led by her.Me too.Probably our best hope of bringing Scotland back into the Labour fold.
What have we come to when their young talent is so much more interesting/competent/savvy than ours.
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