Farrukh Dhondy | Why is Labour, once a force in British politics, on the rocks?
3 years, 7 months ago

Farrukh Dhondy | Why is Labour, once a force in British politics, on the rocks?

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“It’s called hiding and running Or Silence, Exile and Cunning All with Capital letters To unchain Envy’s fetters Always beat about the Bush Suspense keeps hearers Khush Language and idiom mix The ideal poetic fix?” - From Chowpatty Repartee by Bachchoo Apologies! The Opposition Labour Party has lost its appeal and is falling apart; the Tories appealed not to rational material advance of classes but to emotional xenophobia and BoJo’s government will be castigated in the forthcoming inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 emergency, for not implementing lockdown measures in the face of rampant public contagion. In 2019, under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party lost disastrously to Boris Johnson’s Brexiteer buccaneering Tories. No, gentle reader, they voted with a change of allegiance towards the party that promised to “Get Brexit Done” and so ban European citizens from coming into the country, whether they came into their own red wall constituency or not. Labour has become two factions -- the red wall xenophobes and the liberal, partially if dedicatedly, “woke” urban membership.

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