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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
6. You're assuming that no one can ever make a case against neoliberalism again.
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 12:04 AM
Oct 2015

If that was the case, even Blair wouldn't have been able to win.

You can't seriously be against restoring internal democracy, for God's sakes. Labour can't win any future elections by limiting control of policy to the leader and four or five cynical, Labour-hating advisors.

Will you at least admit that, if Corbyn were to be deposed, no one who succeeded him would have any right to ask Corbyn's massive number of supporters to ever vote Labour again?

Labour would have won on ANY manifesto in 1997. The electorate weren't just sick of the Tory party as a group of personalities...they were by then outraged about everything that government had done. And there was no grassroots support for the idea that Labour had to have a militaristic, quasi-imperialist foreign policy or become a democracy-free zone.

Blairism was one set of ideas for one era. It has nothing to offer for the issues facing the UK in the 21st Century. Neoliberalism and "market values" serve no one but the 1%.

Give Corbyn and the newest Left a chance. Crushing them would only help the wealthy.

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