Surely you mean "by the time he starts part-time secondary school, part-time bonded labour"?
Whilst hunting the wastes fir the last edible rat, he'll turn to me and ask 'what's secondary school?'.
And you'll answer by quoting Shakespeare, but he won't get the reference.
A reminder not just how fucking awful she is, but also the Miliband leadership was. Looking at the date of that report, she came out with that as part of the push to win power in 2015. Fucking scum.
It wasn't only just before the Corbyn moment - it was one of the key speeches that created the Corbyn moment. That Reeves is now in the second most senior position in the parliamentary party should be a sign of just how over that moment is.
i know what you're saying but this is increasingly looking like the labour right burning up like a comet / last stand at the ok coral / going down in flames , choose your metaphor> if this is all a dialectic/reactionary response to corbyn, i reckon the pendulum is looking set to swing back the other way much sooner than might have happened otherwise.
Would love to think so, it'll surely depend on how many right wing MPs there are? From when they were getting rid of Corbyn there lots more of them than left wing.
In all fairness, it was absolutely fucking shit when she came out with it at the time.
I mean, the Corbyn moment wasn't just purely a product of the Labour right being shit and ineffective, it was the combination of that with a critical mass of people deciding that they wanted to put their energies into Labour, and I'm not convinced that's coming back. I wonder what Green membership figures are looking like at the moment? I remember the "Green Surge" being much-hyped in the moment immediately pre-Corbyn, and some of the election results would suggest that there's energy swinging back in that direction.
what people now call the left in labour is in many ways rather to the right of such stalwart socialists as 'red' jim callaghan and denis 'dzerzhinsky' healey: and even of viscount stansgate himself, auld tony benn
true, but it wouldnt take much for people to pile back in to labour if it was felt that there was a chance and reason to, and if it happens soon enough perhaps with some lessons learned
You put it better than I was going to, the dialectic bit, but I was going to make the same point. To me we are still playing out the failure of Corbynism and Momentum to grow deep roots and move beyond the borders of the Labour Party and into real life. It was also a grand old duke of york thing as well as they recruited hundreds of thousand of new members and did very little with them. It all fell apart around Brexit - Brexit was a lot of things but it was also about a reaction against politicians who play westminster games rather than relate to and organise in communities. That's my usual rant about Corbynism, but as you say, what we are seeing now is not a 'thing', not an ideology or a project. Centrist Sensibilism is nothing but saying we are not Corbyn. Blair came to power at a time when almost anyone could have led Labour to power, but did have it's own politics and sense of direction. Loathsome as that was, Blair could 'do politics'. Starmer hasn't even got that.
Inertia.
The UK Greens have some real loons hiding in their closet, and some fundamentally wrong policies. But bear in mind they've nothing whatsoever to do with the continental Greens.
you never hear anyone out of labour talking about the unacceptable face of capitalism, they'd have to get their tongues out of the capitalists' arses first
Top rate on investment income at 90% when Heath was in wasn't it? WIlson the Stalinist raised unearned income tax to 98%
