GENERAL
ELECTION JUNE 8th.
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Within 12 hours of
Theresa May announcing that there would be a General Election on June
8th, both Sky News and BBC News 24 had launched into their "election
coverage", with glaringly obvious bias towards the government
preferred issue of making the election solely about "Brexit",
and their own long running campaign to undermine and smear Jeremy
Corbyn. It was particularly conspicuous in the nightly "Newspaper
Preview" item, where both sets of Sky and BBC previewers
contrived within a few minuets of the start of their comments managed
to link how an election would in fact strengthen Theresa May's
position in the "Brexit" negotiations and how some mostly
unnamed Labour MP's were allegedly, already saying that they would
not support the leadership and would campaign on "their own
manifesto's". We can confidently expect that over the course of
the next few days and weeks, the tone of this two pronged bias to
become even more hysterical and personal as conservative and media
desperation with the prospect of Labour winning becomes more of
reality. This morning, Victoria Derbyshire now infamous for her bias
as shown in the Labour Party leadership debates of last year, lost no
time in throwing in the barbed comments Corbyn's leadership if Labour
lost or whether he would be Prime Minister if Labour won. This was
amongst her almost incessant banging on and on about Brexit talking
over who ever the question was directed at. The though crossed my
mind as to why no one ever says to this woman Why don’t you just
shut up and listen to the answers?". A very twisted and warped
interviewer too obsessed with the image of her own importance.
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Over the course of
the next 6 weeks, the conservatives and their media collaborators in
the press and on television, will be seeking to provoke our
candidates, party workers and supporters into stale debate on Brexit
and the way in which negotiations should be conducted. The empty
rhetoric and meaningless clichés which Theresa May spewed out from
the podium in Downing Street failed to conceal the real reasons
behind the about face of historic proportions which she performed
yesterday (18th April). The decision was always about political
opportunity and her vision of increasing the conservative majority in
the House of Commons. She has responded to the picture in the opinion
polls in a crude and cynical exercise in political opportunism, and
no matter what her own MP's may say when dragged out to support her
party line, the public recognise that this as a cynical ploy just to
increase her majority and has nothing at all to do with National
interest.
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We in the Labour
party must ensure that we are not drawn into the narrow debate on
Brexit or the party leadership. The people of this country have
endured the oppression of austerity for the past seven years, the
cuts to the NHS which has resulted in extended waiting times, less
doctors and nurses, reductions in GP's and the invaluable service
which they provide for our communities, the continuing cuts to social
services mental health care and welfare, the never ending housing
crisis, depriving families of any prospect of ever having their own
homes. These are but some of the issues which we must drive home to
the British people and ensure that we put the message across that
there is another way forward and that there are alternatives to
austerity. We must emphasise that the Labour party represents all
society, not just a privileged few. A few sections of our society
grow rich at the expense of the many and the sick, disabled,
unemployed and those reliant on welfare are left behind. It is not
right and it is not fair.
The Labour party
offers an alternative to the status quo of past decades and it is our
responsibility to ensure that message is spread to all corners of the
country
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