I don’t attend political rallies. I’ve been to plenty of protests in various forms. Although I tend to not be around when the tear gas comes out. Please excuse my lily livered fair weather attitude. Please don’t find the appropriate Billy Bragg song. It’s the case I don’t hold with crowds. I did go to see The Corbynator come to town though. I went because he was in town, and because, I support him. Now before you tell me what i’ve heard before, don’t bother. If you don’t think he cannot win the Labour contest thats fine but really I don’t have any need to hear that again.Labour have another horse in the race, it’s a shit horse though, a shit horse who thinks, if I say Nye Bevin enough times people will think i’m a Socialist.  Smith spoke to an audience in Milton Keynes too, pictures i’ve seen show a perhaps dedicated but certainly tichy crowd in a room. Corbyn drew a large number. Momentum estimate 1000s, I suggest about 1500.  I’m not talking it down. Milton Keynes is a comfortable city thats been Conservative for eons. Not only that it’s a cracking hot  day today, so over 1000 people is a decent effort, it’s a tough deal to drag the electrate from the pub garden, the picnic and the BBQ. The one thing I wanted to see though was the crowd. Tom Watson swears blind the party has been infiltrated by members of the Socialist Workers party and assorted Trotskyists. It’s a bizarre claim, bold perhaps, deluded certainly. The SWP has a membership of 6000 people. Many of whom are only active insofar as paying subs. 300,000 people have joined the rank and file of Labour. Now, i’m not a mathematician but I don’t think some of 6000 is really a significant amount of bolsheviks. So I went to see. What I found was not Moscow in 1917, but more varied people of varied backgrounds. I’m pleased to see that typical british liberal/lefty was on show but this felt more like a fairport convention gig than a bastille storming. The British hard left likes allotments, lentil bake and hand me down clothes. I did see unionists with their flags, I did hear music. Why is it always the same old hackneyed guitar led trite old crap? A working class hero by John Lennon and a new version of Which side are you on? Please. I admit It was a surprise not to hear Pete Seeger, I admire the restraint. Among this lot though there were others, not other tribes, but more, other people. A fine display of the British peoples. I’m not saying fine specimens as such but a decent cross section. Young people in box fresh nikes, muslims in jilabas, poles, accidental portuguese hipster old men with wide brimmed hats and natty braces. Young mothers, and skateboarders. (Milton Keynes Railway Station & Bus Station is a mecca for skateboarding). In all it was a decent crowd, a choir for the Corbinator to preach to. You’ll know the message, i’m not writing about it. You either like him or you don’t you can read about that and actual real analysis elsewhere. I saw unionists, I saw people who will tonight go home and cook lentil bake on a narrow boat, I also saw the same sort of people you see every day in Milton Keynes.  I didn’t see a single Mauser Rifle, I didn’t see any situationists, I didn’t see any veterans of the french civil war and I didn’t see Gerald Winstanley or the Levellers. Tom Watson is wrong and he knows it.Â
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