not yesterdays people to me at all. arguing about this on a messageboard achieves nothing.
Well, I think you're wrong about that. We can learn from our mistakes. We can remind ourselves of our basic values.
I know what you are really trying to say, and that's that we should be diplomatic about it all for the sake of rebuilding the left in Scotland. But I'm not in Scotland and I'm no good at diplomacy anyway. The SSP shattered not because of TS, but because it took it's success for granted. It got far too comfortable, far too repectable amongst bourgeois nationalists. It's no good rebuilding the SSP mark 2 and waiting for that to collapse. A solididly based working class party will not collapse because of one sex scandal involving one leading member. It's ludicrous. If Solidarity members haven't learnt the lesson, it's no good rebuilding with them. It's important to get your principles right.