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a year ago

Labour's Leadership Lost

The politics in early August, the title is a play on words of various literary greats.

  1. I have picked a couple of articles arguing mainly for support for Jeremy Corbyn. I shall deal with the shenannigans elsewhere, I am tryinf to stay high minded tonight.
  2. Owen Jones, bravely asks nine questions of Jeremy and his supporters, in an article entitled

  3. Questions all Jeremy Corbyn supporters need to answer

  4. Medium
    https://medium.com/@OwenJones84/questions-all-jeremy-corbyn-supporters-need-to-answer-b3e82ace7ed3
    Medium
  5. Paul Mason replies confronting the fact that a hard-core of Labour coup plotters intend to destroy Labour as an effective opposition between now and 2020.
  6. Thumbnail for Labour: The Way Ahead - Mosquito RidgeLabour: The Way Ahead - Mosquito Ridge
    In the war movie The Way Ahead, David Niven is in charge of a platoon of working class conscripts, who skive their way through basic training. In their first real battle they're forced to launch an attack on the elite Afrika Korps.
    Paul Mason
  7. Possibly most importantly, Neal Lawson continues to support the wave not the surfer, and in this open letter to Labour, this least tribal of Labour thinkers questions Owen Smith as a Leader and recognising Jeremy's failings recognises that he can run on a manifesto of hope.
  8. Thumbnail for Dear Labour | CompassDear Labour | Compass
    That is why the first port of call on any new journey for Labour must be proportional representation and a progressive alliance of parties and movements - what Compass calls 45 Degree Politics - the meeting point of the vertical and the horizontal - into a force that can make transformative change not just desirable but feasible.
    Compassonline
  9. Tom Colcough in a flowing and lucid piece argues in similar terms that Corbyn has to win. Labour had lost two elections on broadly moderate tickets and had begun losing millions of votes during the stints of Blair and Brown. Turning this round takes time, we need to give Jeremy more. The article is better than my summary, if you read any of these pieces, I recommend you read this one.
  10. Thumbnail for What Labour MPs still need to learn from Jeremy CorbynWhat Labour MPs still need to learn from Jeremy Corbyn
    In some Labour circles, the decision to vote for Jeremy Corbyn is treated as a dereliction of duty, one of a ship's captain watching gleefully on from shore as his vessel sinks and the thinktank Progress rushes out to save all the women and children.
    Newstatesman
  11. David Wearing laments the poor organisation and the lost opportunity after the Brexit vote, especially its calamitous economic effects, provided a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do lasting damage to the Conservative brand.
  12. Thumbnail for Gunning for Corbyn, not the Conservatives, is Labour's tragedy | David WearingGunning for Corbyn, not the Conservatives, is Labour's tragedy | David Wearing
    Give the grown-ups back control of the Labour party. Wasn't that supposed to be the idea? Yet with each fresh turn of events, the coup against Jeremy Corbyn looks less like an adult intervention, and more like a slapstick farce.
    David Wearing
  13. Ellie Mae Hagen reinvents journalism by actually going to meet Momentum supporters. She discovers they're human beings, just angry for having been ignored for so long.
  14. Thumbnail for Corbyn supporters are not delusional Leninists but ordinary, fed-up voters | Ellie Mae O'HaganCorbyn supporters are not delusional Leninists but ordinary, fed-up voters | Ellie Mae O'Hagan
    Lock up your children, for there is a sinister force taking root in modern Britain. It is a cult, with followers like those of mass murderer Charles Manson, shrouded in a cloud of spite and acrimony. The worst thing about this terrifying insurgency? My mum is part of it.
    Ellie Mae O'Hagan
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  16. David Holt 2013 CC BY-SA from wikipedia, cropped and posted on my web server