Agenda 2019

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/unite-union-boss-len-mccluskey-threatens-to-launch-party-to-rival-labour-9231266.html Unite union boss Len McCluskey threatens to launch party to rival Labour Len McCluskey: General Secretary of Unite "a rival party could be created to challenge Labour if it does not win next year." The need for a new party on the Left of British politics is already clearly evident. Whether the Labour party win the next general election or not, is neither here nor there. By qualifying the suggestion of a new party, McCluskey repeats the very same duplicity which has plagued the present Labour party for decades. Namely that ideology and principle are somehow linked to winning elections and that such principles can be shelved or even discarded in order to achieve electoral success. That was one, but not the only one, of the reasons why I left the Labour party shortly before Blair became leader. Labour had degenerated from a party...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/21/ed-miliband-change-labour-tony-blair_n_4834119.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Miliband To Radically Change Labour Party Far More Than Blair   Blair and Miliband: Full circle   Miliband has still not grasped the essential truth. The reasons for the disillusionment people feel about politics, the decline in numbers of people voting in elections, the growing perception of a rift between politicians and public has nothing to do with leadership elections within the party, reforms in the relationship between the Trade Union movement and the party or even Prime Ministers Questions in the Commons. The problems result from the inexorable shift in policy direction of the party to the so called "centre ground" in British politics. This shift, to a certain extent commenced by Niel Kinnock but certainly carried to extreme and disastrous lengths by Blair, Mandelsson, Brown and Campbell has resulted in working people, pens...

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/31/ed-miliband-labour-union-funding-shakeup    Ed Miliband's Labour-union shakeup Miliband will "look at the structure of Party Conference" The sooner the TUC dumps this current apology for a "Labour" party with its pathetic "leadership" the better. Milliband is sounding more and more like Blair with each passing day. The comment that he would, ""complete unfinished business of the past 20 years" and the proposal to introduce "sweeping reforms" designed to recast Labour's historic link with the trade unions, could have been written by Alastair Campbell. (With all the intrigue and conspiracies currently taking place, we may be excused for believing the phrase actually was produced from Campbell's pen.) Blair destroyed the Labour party and Milliband is just raking through the debris.