TWO items in the Sunday National prompted reflection. First, the item on Michael Shanks, Labour candidate for Rutherglen and Hamilton West; and…
, I’m sure that can only stand in his favour in Starmer’s version of the party. Corbyn looked like the only chance for meaningful change in UK politics for at least 40 years, which obviously could not be allowed to happen – hence Starmer, to keep the UK safe for the wealthy 1%.If I remember right, one opinion poll asked the public their opinions on Corbyn’s actual policies, one by one, without mentioning names or parties. Every one of them had popular support.
The USA is another country clinging to a first-past-the-post system, with staggering inequality, like the UK. I also remember in 1997 a colleague remarked that he had overheard retired miners in a Glenrothes pub saying that whatever Blair and Brown were saying up to the election, “just wait till they’re elected, then we’ll see some socialism.” At the time I was depressingly conscious of everything they were carefully not saying.
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