1y ago

Two councillors resign from Labour criticising its lurch to the right

morningstaronline.co.uk

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A lurch? It's a tectonic shift!
- They've not been a left wing party since Kinnock, except for the brief Corbyn years. This just seems like a return to Blairite business as usual.
  
  Clearly not a popular opinion on the internet but.... Blairite business as usual is actually winning elections and getting a chance to enact reforms as opposed to preaching to the choir with no influence.
  I really do hope we get over this idea that if you're not a direct descendant of Arthur Scargill himself then you're some sort of right wing pariah. Starmer (or Blair / Brown) might not be to people's liking but they're far from the right wing nutters we have had in power for the last fourteen years.
  I hope people are realistic and understand that we need at least a parliament to put into place plans to undo the damage the Conservatives have done. Nothing is instant, nothing is cheap.
  Edit: Freudian typo.
Complete non-entities given a story on a non-entity website.
Why do you keep posting stories from this utter shite?
- We've had news on Labour councillors stepping down before and the Morning Star is a well-known left-wing source of news. I don't see a problem with this
  
  Two councillors stepping down in an area where they would vote for a donkey if it wore a red rosette is not a story.
  I doubt many people in Sefton itself could name these two. Yet it's supposed to be of national interest?
- I appreciate stories like this
  
  Because it shows there are self-important people at all levels of politics?
- You consider two councillors that make decisions for just under 300K people to be non-entities? What does someone have to be to be worth reporting on for you?
  
  Councillors represent wards within that area. These two probably represent about 10k-ish people each?
- It's the largest worker owned paper in this country.
  It is also such a "non-entity" that it was targeted by spooks multiple times (and apparently read by Margaret Thatcher)
  
  Yeah. During the Cold War.
  Things have moved on a bit since then.

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