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I'm in Blighty at present and watched the local council election results with a bit of interest. As expected Labour did very badly, the Conservatives did pretty well, and the Welsh and Scottish nationalists advanced. And UKIP was annihilated. The Conservatives made progress in some traditional Labour heartlands, including the poorest council area in the whole of Britain, which went Tory. I'm not depressed at all. The sooner the vile British Labour Party gets annihilated the better as far as I'm concerned. They are as obnoxious as the Tories, and confronted with the choice of Labour v Tory, I'm neither surprised nor depressed that a lot workers opt for the Tories and even more opt to abstain. If I was a voter here I wouldn't have bothered voting. I don't vote in NZ and, really, the British LP is no better than the NZ one. Corbyn is a ridiculous old duffer who can't/won't even defend his own left friends from scurrilous attacks from the Zionists. Instead he lets them be suspended from his party, another indication of what a waste of space Labour is regardless of who leads it. The Trotskyists here, meanwhile, are a throwback to another time. They have an absolutely dogmatic two-stage theory of revolution: the first stage is endless Labour voting and Labour governments and then, somewhere in the never-never future, will come the socialist stage. Like NZ, Britain needs a whole new Marxist left. One not attached by some kind of life-support system to the senile, reactionary British Labour Party. I must dig out my copy of *Leon Trotsky on Britain *when I get back to NZ. The Old Man would be turning in his grave. Or, to paraphrase Marx, be saying, "If this is Trotskyism then all I can say is that I'm not a Trotskyist". _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
