https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/29/alastair-campbell-says-he-no-longer-wishes-to-be-a-labour-member
Alastair Campbell says he no longer wishes to be a Labour member.
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Alistair Campbell has left the Labour party. In a letter published in the Guardian, (where else?), Campbell has stated that the party "no longer truly represents my values, or the hopes I have for Britain", adding, “I see no strategy in place that remotely meets the electoral or policy challenges ahead" and “Corbyn is not the leader that Labour needs at this time. He cannot deliver. Even his supporters are realising this". I left the Labour party, or more accurately the Labour party left me, at the back end of the 1980's during the last few years of Neil Kinnock's time as leader. The man who I had campaigned for in 1983, (because Kinnock seemed the best of a bad choice from candidates, Hattersley, Heffer and Shore) soon proved that I probably should have abstained as immediately after his election, he began drifting to the right.The drift did not improve as he first betrayed the Trade Union movement, then working people generally and every principle that the Labour Party stood for when I first joined. Over the next few years, through to the leadership of Blair and Brown, I watched the party decline (certainly in my terms) to a quasi Tory party offering nothing to people generally and abandoning the Trade Union movements with anti union legislation, all under the banner of "New Labour".
The architects of this abandonment of ordinary people and the promotion of "Tory Lite" policies was Blair, of course, Mandelson, Brown and not least Campbell. These men destroyed the Labour party and left people with little choice in political terms and little hope for any form of future. Now, Campbell has left the party, but could not resist during television interviews after his resignation, emphasising that the party should return to the era of Blair and even Brown, when they had all the answers and should be the natural government of this country.Campbell has learned nothing from the years that have passed since 2010. Declining membership within the party, declining popular support at the polls, lack of direction and loss of support.
All that has now been reversed under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, and Campbell, plus some others, like Mandelson, Brown and even Kinnock (Junior) have never been been able to accept it.
Campbell has now gone and perhaps others from the usual suspects will follow. I am perhaps many others, will not be sad to see them go.
All that has now been reversed under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, and Campbell, plus some others, like Mandelson, Brown and even Kinnock (Junior) have never been been able to accept it.
Campbell has now gone and perhaps others from the usual suspects will follow. I am perhaps many others, will not be sad to see them go.
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