Having worked for 2 Tory Councils and seeing their priorities when it comes to cuts, and the way they treat their council tenants, and seeing the way wandsworth has introduced a poverty- apartheid for park users, i think that for all their faults Lambeth is far better off under a Labour administration than it ever would be under Tories or their LibDem bed partners. They can put what they want in their manifesto, as there will be one result in the May election, and that is a Labour victory with merely the size of the majority undecided. The most effective place to fight for a more responsive council is within the party, by helping to outnumber the progress members, and thus steer the council into a corbynite position
I'm a life long Labour voter and I actively hate this bunch of Blairite cunts in Lambeth Town Hall. I've no interest in joining Labour.
i understand why you wont join, but of course if lambeth labour had been able to pull in more corbyn supporting members it would be able to select different councillors, and thus change the direction of the council. As it is, the Constituency parties that make up Lambeth have grown massively since Corbyns election, but when it comes to votes the blairittes still outnumber the corbynites.
For at least 28 years I've heard versions of the we must recapture the Labour party tune. Being as Corbyn campaigns under an auld Blairite slogan - for the many not the few - I'll believe they're much different from before when I see it.
The option is a Labour-led Govt or a Tory-led Govt, and as a working class council tenant I would rather have corbyn deciding priorities than a Tory. Likewise, I’d rather live under a corbynite local council than a new Labour one. Simple as
I also think you’ll find the quote comes from a Shelley poem - and he was around a wee bit early to be a blairite.
I think you'll find it was stuck above Blair at at least one labour party conference
Yeh nice use of the strawman
I don’t remember that but it’s a good line to sum up socialism. Corbyn is no Blair. New labour fought tooth and nail to stop the left taking the leadership as you know, and he has consistently been on the right side of history. I have no doubt a left wing Labour Party Government will be a better deal for me than a Tory one and that’s the choice. Him and Mcdonnell are good guys and a million miles from Blair. The party’s massive and therefore a coalition of ideas and even of ideologies, but the blarites are well and truely marginalised, and for once In my lifetime there is a fighting chance of getting a socialist Prime Minister into No10. Surely it’s worth a try even if you are cynical
Yeh. Well you won't get a corbynite Lambeth just as you won't get a Tory Lambeth. And tbh it's labour councils that are ripping down council estates like the haggerston, colville, heygate and replacing them with yuppie flats. The same shits will be in power in Lambeth in June as are in power in Lambeth now and I hope being treated like shit by them feels more pleasant to you than being treated like shit by tories.
Any more detail?
the new building can't accommodate all the people they're sacking?
You really are a sad old git
No doubt you were bashing your keyboard during the leadership election saying there’s no way we could get a left wing leader of the party?
yeh. i haven't insulted you. that you feel the need to insult me is really rather telling.
tbh i don't think i said anything of the sort during the leadership contest. and yes i do lots of other things: but what i've posted hasn't been whinging but pointing out the bleeding obvious. the only blinkered whinger here is you.
