IWCA statement on BNP

[Joe Reilly]

C'mon ye whites.

Edit: Dumb idea all round to think an addition of melanin would solve any problem at a stroke, that's if they thought that, but you say they did? Then what was your response to this?

A paper had been submitted to the meeting pointing out the arch idiocy of postering working class estates with 'Refugees Welcome Here!' and related subjects. It was not even discussed. Needless to say the SA went down in flames.

At the end of the day all the Fast Show type posturing merely confirmed the pro-immigrant lobby was as unthinking, knee-jerk and prejudiced as the as the anti-immigrant one. No change there then.

 

[audiotech]

A paper had been submitted to the meeting pointing out the arch idiocy of postering working class estates with 'Refugees Welcome Here!' and related subjects. It was not even discussed. Needless to say the SA went down in flames.

At the end of the day all the Fast Show type posturing merely confirmed the pro-immigrant lobby was as unthinking, knee-jerk and prejudiced as the as the anti-immigrant one. No change there then.

Prejudiced into thinking that people on working class estates wouldn't welcome refugees is the implication with what you're saying?

 

[Joe Reilly]

Prejudiced into thinking that people on working class estates wouldn't welcome refugees is the implication with what you're saying?

On the contrary somedays you can hardly see the tower blocks for bunting

 

[butchersapron]

Amzing, the left - and i do mean the left here, the active extra-parlimementary left, not Jon Cruddas and the like - will still argue this today

The Labour Party has periodically been forced to reinvent itself, and as long as it has the foundations built upon the mass membership trade unions it will have sufficient resilience to survive and adapt, rather than melt away. When assessing any political party it is necessary to look not only at the narrow composition of its current membership, but also at the institutions that support it, the social constraints that operate upon it, and the ideological and philosophical ideals that its electors identify with. On that basis, despite the New Labour cuckoos who have taken over the nest, the Labour Party remains a broadly progressive social force, and for the foreseeable future will remain the largest part of any progressive coalition.

All too belivable

 

[Pickman's model]

the labour party does remain a progressive force in the same way a bulldozer's a fucking progressive force