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Thousands of jobs on the line as anti-nuclear Greens back Labour TENS of thousands of jobs are on the line across Cumbria, including many in the Workington constituency, as the anti-nuclear Green Party back Labour Full story: http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2017/05/11/thousands-jobs-line-anti-nuclear-greens-back-labour/
Opinion: Jeremy Corbyn will never be Prime Minister - thank god!
Opinion: @jeremycorbynmp will never be Prime Minister - thank god!Opinion: Jeremy Corbyn will never be Prime Minister - thank god!
The dust has settled after the most shocking Labour leadership campaign in my lifetime, and we can be all pleased to know Jeremy Corbyn will never be Prime Minister.
He may have surprised UK politics when he won the battle to become Labour leader, but the 66-year-old is one of the most unelectable candidates in history.
Since then a YouGov poll has shown him to be the most unpopular opposition…
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JC: The Islington Messiah?
Today saw what for many weeks has seemed inexorable: the election of Jeremy Corbyn as the new leader of the Labour party. The last few months we have seen, on a seemingly daily basis, one after another of the great creaking ‘Big Beasts’ of Labour politics lurch onto our tv screens to sling mud at the ‘Islington Messiah’. Of course, now this ramping up of fear-mongering can be said to have resoundingly failed. Indeed an argument could be made that the interventions of the deeply unpopular Ghosts of Labour’s Past were a boon to Corbyn. These sort of interventions are nothing new though, we’ve seen it in every election/referendum from Atlee’s Gestapo to Miliband’s Border Guards. It’s not just the grandees of Westminster though that are fearful of what this victory might mean. We are told that the SNP should be afraid of the ‘Corbynmania’ that has talked its way calmly (in an open-collared shirt) across the land. Commentators explain that what was really happening was not just the exodus of ‘Yes’ voting Scots back into the Labour fold, but actually the beginning of a socialist fightback against the Conservatives: “all those Tories who have been smirking for the past month may be up against an invigorated grassroots Labour machine that could grow its membership above anything they have faced in modern politics” Writes Robert MacGregor in the Spectator. Stirring stuff, I’ll admit. But are we really expected to believe that Corbyn’s leadership could set off a new wave of ‘English Socialism’ while healing the wounds of Labour in Scotland? Owen Jones, not exactly neutral when it comes to Corbyn, has warned these self-same Tory Party supporters to beware a left wing backlash. Be-moaning their triumphalism in the New Statesman: “No majority Tory government has ever won an election on such a low share of the vote as the party did in 2015, but its supporters behave as though they won a majority of 200 seats.” And so we now see a man whose previous highest public office was chairman of the Haringey council planning committee, some thirty years ago, ascend to the status of Labour leader. He will be joined there with politicians from Greece, Spain (and even Germany), where too the traditional parties of the centre-left are being confronted by mutineer movements from the harder, redder side of the tracks. Now, public investment in infrastructure, housing and hi-tech industry, using targeted quantitative easing, alongside progressive, redistributive taxation is scarcely revolutionary. Therefore it certainly challenges the ‘Post-Thatcher Consensus’ enough to warrant the fear mongering tactics usually reserved for Iraqi despots. I jest of course. But what of our international friends? Well the ire directed at JC is not, or will certainly not remain, solely of a domestic nature. Interviewed by Russia Today, Corbyn eloquently asked the rhetorical: “What is security? Is the security the ability to bomb, maim, kill, destroy? Or is security the ability to get along with other people and have some sort of respectful existence with them?” This is what JC is selling though as the Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman put it, when Labour supporters refuse to accept a failed austerity ideology, they aren’t “moving left”, they’re “refusing to follow a party elite that has decided to move sharply to the right”. Labour is essentially two parties. The idea that one party is prepared to sabotage the other in order to save the greater body is folly, in this commentators’ eyes. It would only hasten the collapse.
Opinion: Jeremy Corbyn - he'd bring back Labour's roots, but lose the 2020 election
Opinion: Jeremy Corbyn – he’d bring back Labour’s roots, but lose the 2020 election
Jeremy Corbyn is the shock leader in the race to become the next leader of the Labour Party, but while he may bring it more in line with its traditional beliefs, he will take it further away from power.
The hardcore left of Labour voters will no doubt be delighted by the news, if the recent polls are right and Corbyn wins the September election, but are they the people the party really needs to…
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