The Labour party is facing financial ruin… and not for the first time. Reports in the national press revealed that the party is facing a worse existential and financial crisis.
Damaged by allegations of racism, anti-semitism and political bullying, leading to a long succession of legal cases. Constant factional and sectarian infighting. Increasing anger at the way Sir Keir Starmer is leading the party. Staff working at party headquarters are being sacked. It’s no wonder that members disgusted at the current situation have rightly decided to walk away.
So far most of the discussion among the left-wing (mostly Jeremy Corbyn-supporting) commentators has been how to reclaim Labour from the so-called centrists who now dominate the party. But they are wasting their time. With current polls seeing Labour falling even further behind, it’s a matter of time for left-wing MPs to have the political courage to say, “Stuff this, we’ve had enough”, to actually publically quit the party, and to set up their own, soft-centre left political organisation, so they can be their true selves, and will actually start the public fight back against this arrogant and rotten Conservative government. It’s so bloody obvious!!!!
The fight back should be multi-pronged, including:
- -to attack Labour in their city and urban strongholds in order to win council seats,
- -to seek alliances with the other main opposition political parties, as well as the regionals and independents at election times
- -showing an increasingly sceptical electorate that there is an alternative to the status quo.
It’s no good people repeatedly flogging a dead horse when it’s dead- that’s what Labour is today, and with Starmer at the helm, the demise is terminal. The long-term priority should be to replace them as a party of opposition, because sadly, the United Kingdom is entering an era of multi-generational Conservative government.