Re: M-TH: Re: UK Far Left Blows Its Chance in London

[Jim heartfield]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris
Burford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Livingstone clearly asked the London Socialist Alliance to keep at arms 
>length so he could win as an independent. However it did not pitch itself 
>as providing a broader lead, but like most left groups concentrated on 
>trying to prove it was purer than the rest.
>
>By contrast Trevor Philips, the black journalist, who has been close to 
>Democratic left, has emerged as one of the most influential members of the 
>Labour group on the Assembly and likely to become its first chairperson.

Yes, but Trevor Phillips was more of a New Labour hack than Frank
Dobson, pouring vitriol on Livingstone from a great height, and still
cursing and spitting at the point that everyone else was being
'inclusive'. Peter Mandelson was best man to the oleaginous Mr Phillips.
-- 
Jim heartfield


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