Labour needs 'seismic change' or party will fall into decline
Watching the newspaper previews on television last night, one of the reviewers made a comment which was certainly missed, probably by design, by his co previewer and the presenter and I should think by many of the viewers at home. The story under review was the Telegraph front page coverage of Baron Blunkett's intervention in the on going "anti semitism" row within the Labour party.
The reviewer commented, as many of us have remarked on in the past, that all the criticism leveled at the party leadership on this issue, has originated from that section commonly described as the Blairite wing of the Labour party. Blunkett argues "Either Jeremy Corbyn can lead a party into gradual decline and irrelevance, or demonstrate that he can lead a party fit for Government", much in the same vein as others have been prompting over the past weeks. It is not surprising that Tom Watson, no doubt still harbouring leadership ambitions, has again chipped in with his own thinly veiled criticisms of Corbyn, in support of Frank Field and Blunkett and even Sacks.
The incessant barrage of Corbyn must act or Corbyn must stamp out antisemitism or other meaningless cliches, particularly from some individuals from within the PLP, demonstrably reveal that the motivation for such comments is more to do with bringing about the removal of the leadership, rather than raising concerns about alleged "antisemitism" in the party. It is clearly evident that these criticisms eagerly grasped and encouraged by the media, particularly the mail, stem from those individuals who hold the view that "New Labour" was the model, to which the Labour party of today should aspire and revert. This will clearly never happen under the leadership Jeremy Corbyn and consequently these disgruntled MP's resort to the age old ploy of undermining the leader with the pretext of concern for the party.
It is sad that these individuals, Field, Blunkett, Gapes, Hodge and others, who would have so much to offer to the Labour part of today, are so obsessed with their yearning for the "good old days", that they fail to realise that their ceaseless campaign to sabotage Corbyn and the party leadership is for their purposes counterproductive, and will ultimately backfire.
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