In this first week of October
2016 I am going to continue to write about cultural experiences, artistic works
which require years of training and exceptional skill, and works primarily of
entertainment but which also can move, challenge or demand attention. I am
doing this while I reflect further on having devoted my time during the first part
of each of the past two weeks to the annual conferences of the Labour and
Conservative Parties and reflecting further on my decision at the end of June
to openly contest the rebellion of the Parliamentary Labour Party who appeared
to have not only declared war on their leader but on the majority of the Party
membership because of the audacity to support and elect someone as leader who
offered an alternative and better approach to political participation and
engagement, who had analysed why as the fifth largest economy in the world
inequalities and injustices were flourishing and causing great harm to hundreds
of thousands of British citizens in their homeland, and who together with a few
likeminded others proposed alternative policies which are summed up in the
phrase twenty first century socialism.
In response to a Party said to
have over half a million members, at least twice, if not three times that of
the Conservative Party, their new leader and appointed Prime Minister has
recognised the threat to the political stability of the present order of
international global capitalism and free market exploitation, and its implication
for the immediate future and standing of her Party and in one sentence switched
the attack from a Conservative Nasty Party to a Labour Nazi Party and in one
speech parked her tanks on the ground of
the centre left as much as the centre right.
In fact, both leaders and many
within the women’s section of the Labour Party, are advocates for a new
political puritanism so that when she called upon those in the conference hall
at Birmingham to join her, she was as much appealing to Yvette Cooper and
Angela Eagle to join her as she was warning those on the far right of her own
party to get on side or leave the battlefield.
On the basis of admittedly one speech and a few indicators of the
governmental action to come and using the concept of the five set major lawn
tennis final, she has taken the Tory party into a three to one set lead in
winning the next general election which I suspect she will attempt to hold before
2020 but only after the terms of Brexit have been negotiated and the deed
accomplished or if forced putting the deal to the electorate and only then if she is convinced she will gain an
overwhelming vote in favour.
The Prime Minister is unlikely
to repeat the mistake of her predecessor who only got away with the vote to
keep Scotland in the Union with the help of Labour and in particular the intervention
of Gordon Brown. Just as the Liberal Democrats have faced political extinction
because of their attempt to gain power through the Tory Party, the Labour Party
in Scotland has paid the price failing to combat the Sottish Nationalists and
then by forming an alliance with the Tories of the referendum. The Labour Party
has faced potential General Election disaster in England because the evident
lack of support given to their leader and then at the very moment the tide
appeared to be turning, by open revolts and the threat becomes even greater if the
civil war continues and has reached the tipping point that unless the Parliamentary
Labour Party can embrace 21st century socialism action will commence
to replace as Corbyn supporters gain positions of power within constituencies.
The first test will be Prime Minister Questions on October 12th with
the Labour Leader appearing before the Women and Equalities Committee beforehand
at 9.30am
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