droodzilla
pfm Member
Interesting critique of Starmer's Labour from (I would say) a very soft left perspective:
https://www.newstatesman.com/commen...ir-starmer-contests-reveals-emptiness-purpose
The woman barred from becoming a PPC (prospective parliamentary candidate) and expelled from the party is pro-EU and pro-Starmer, so not your typical Corbynite troublemaker.
The contrast with Christian Wakeford's treatment is grimly telling.
Key quote:
https://www.newstatesman.com/commen...ir-starmer-contests-reveals-emptiness-purpose
The woman barred from becoming a PPC (prospective parliamentary candidate) and expelled from the party is pro-EU and pro-Starmer, so not your typical Corbynite troublemaker.
The contrast with Christian Wakeford's treatment is grimly telling.
Key quote:
Sadly, Starmer is not interested in collectively building a new democratic future. His instincts are profoundly elitist, anti-democratic and authoritarian.In its crushing of internal democracy and difference, Labour denies itself the right to claim a new democratic future for our country. This is one part of the battlefield that the Tories are most vulnerable on. Because the object of progressive politics is not for a small clique to wield all the power but for people, as citizens, to build their future collectively. Yet you can’t preach externally what you don’t live internally.