| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Rupa Huq - the tory | |
| Posted by: | Huw Burford-Taylor | |
| Date/Time: | 22/07/15 09:35:00 |
| I would broadly agree with the first paragraph. However campaigning on an anti-capitalist anti-austerity agenda is disingenuous at best when you know full well that there is no way that your party will ever be able to follow up on those promises. I would suggest it was far easier for the SNP to clear up precisely because of the profile and momentum they gained during the referendum campaign, which enabled them to mobilise their vote far more effectively, that, and the "anti" SNP vote was diluted three ways. Voting for Corbyn would be a massive exercise in self indulgence on Labours part, not because I believe he's anything like as bad as Scargill, Galloway et al, but because the causes and policies he espouses simply will not carry enough of the electorate with him to bring them into office. You say "the Labour leadership is in danger of trying too hard to impress the wrong people." I disagree, it is precisely these small c conservative people, like me, fiscally conservative, socially liberal, that it should be looking to woo, much like under Blair. The Labour Party under Corbyn would be little more than a pressure group, not a credible government-in-waiting. |