Yvette Cooper: Labour members have “a choice of two futures”, if Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour leadership.
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Yvette Cooper |
Yvette Cooper would have us believe
that only she, or Burnham or Kendall (and obviously she would prefer
it to be herself) can provide a return to power for Labour. It is a
message that many people in this country may find rather familiar.
The message that says only the right or centre right of the Labour
party, is capable of securing an election victory to beat the
Conservative and form a government. It is the same message which has
been trotted out for many years with dwindling impact upon the
electorate. The reasons why the Labour party has lost so much of its
membership over the past 20 years together with a hemorrhage of
voters to the SNP in Scotland and to UKIP in the rest of the UK,
particularly evident in the May 7th election, is essentially because
of the message that Cooper sends out today.
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| The "right" and "centre right" candidates |
For far too long, the so called right
and centre right of the Parliamentary Labour Party party have assumed
that they have some sort of divine right to dominate the party and to
determine what the policies shall be and in which direction the party
will go forward. In this role of domination they have pursued the
path of seeking to satisfy the “centre ground” with Labour
versions of what are essentially Conservative policies. The result of
this deception is that people have taken the view that rather than
vote Labour and get some wishy washy facsimile of a Conservative
government, they may as well vote Conservative, or perhaps more
likely and disastrous for Labour, not vote at all or move to the SNP
or UKIP candidate.
In one sense, Cooper is right when she
says that this Labour leadership election provides “a choice of two
futures”, but the comment applies specifically to the Labour party
and the policies and values which the party should adopt. On the one
hand, Cooper, Burnham and Kendall offer more of the same. A rag bag
collection of of pseudo Conservative policies wrapped up in a
different coloured paper, and presented to the electorate under a
cloud of lies and deceit in yet another attempt to gain power at the
ballot box.
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| Jeremy Corbyn. The "other" candidate. |
The other candidate is the one that
they, and the media and television, all fear. That explains the
almost hysterical campaign of smear, innuendo and personal attacks
being waged on the front page of practically every newspaper and on
many of the popular news channels against Jeremy Corbyn and those who
support him in the election campaign. How strange it is that the
candidate who speaks about issues and vision, the candidate who is
generally acknowledged (even by opponents) to give straight answers
to the questions and to tell the truth, the candidate who offers real
alternatives to the failed policies of past decades, should be so
vilified and abused by those who have lies, deceit and duplicity as
part of their everyday make up.
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