Tuesday 21 November 2017

Changing Everything Again

They are very much of a type: Constantine XI Palaeologus, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Charles X, Nicholas II, Puyi, Mehmed VI, Stephen Kinnock.

The Kinnocks, like the Blairs, could all be wiped out simply by throwing a penny piece in front of an oncoming train. They have been a cancer in the body politic for more than long enough.

Lucy Powell is a satirical character, and not even a well-drawn one. She is a ridiculous caricature of a New Labour MP, something that no one would any longer see the need to satirise.

Even in 2005, after two terms of Blairism including the invasion of Iraq, Jeremy Corbyn did not ask the electors of Islington North to vote for him in order to get rid of Tony Blair. Ruth Cadbury ought not to have the whip.

And Sarah Champion knew so little about the party that she imagined to have been founded by Blair as a Bill Clinton tribute band, that she could not foresee or comprehend the fuss when she wrote an article about race in The Sun.

Vote Labour in every constituency next time. But do not vote for Stephen Kinnock (or, rather, for his wife, Grace Mugabe), or for Lucy Powell, or for Ruth Cadbury, or for Sarah Champion. It follows, therefore, that those must not be Labour candidates next time.

That is not the only reason to ensure the election of Yasmine Dar, Rachel Garnham and Jon Lansman to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. But it is a very, very, very good one.

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