Yeah, fair question...but what I wouldn't do is shelve all my principles! Is that so wrong? Everything I read says that many Brits blame immigration for today's economic woes (I think that's wrong) just like they blame Gordon Brown for the 2008 crash (wrong again). I'm afraid that if you drip feed the great British public with (step forward Mr Murdoch and pals) half-truths, misconceptions and downright lies to suit their own ends then they will be believed. Just look at the number of people who post on the forum comparing Jeremy Corbyn to some Soviet era apparatchik without any evidence! Another example of this.....remember how the Daily Mail cast Ed Miliband's dad as someone who hated Britain...yet he fought in the Navy in the war, for heavens sake!
do you want the power to change things that are wrong in society or do you want to stand on the side lines tutting about how awful things are while sipping ethical fair trade camomile tea and eating a gluten free pita and humus. Up to you.
I want a Labour party ready willing and
able to assume power to make the changes we need in society. I don't think Corbyn can deliver that and more worryingly i don't think he wants to deliver that. Why? Because principles are more important than winning to him and his supporters.
I think the broad principles of a fairer, more equal and more just society are shared. I simply think that the chances of delivering that are through holding the centre ground and delivering real everyday change that benefits real people rather than some vague & ill defined yet cuddly leftie big bang Corbynians seem to think is just around the corner.
I am not some Tory. I am a long standing Labour member and it pains me immensely to see what Corbyn is doing to us. He will destroy Labour as a serious political force in this country. Everything we have achieved as a party over the years, all the good, all the social change, all the improvements and all the benefits gone in one (now two) orgy of self righteous & deluded self harm. It makes me want to cry with anger.
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...but I don't understand what the centre ground is! For Labour, is it like being a little like the Tories (but not too much) and for the Tories it is being a little bit like Labour (but not too much)? That way, nothing much changes in our very unequal society and The Establishment are very happy!
Why are we always blaming shadowy figures and mysterious Machiavellian players rather than admitting that the centre ground is where most of the population ( at least those who vote) are and our polices do not resonate with these people.
We can not win power without winning these people. How is Corbyn going to do that?
