Yesterday the self appointed "Peoples Assembly" organised a demonstration to call for a General Election and obviously a Labour Government. It was a complete flop with probably nor more than 4,000 people attending, a large proportion of whom were trying to flog socialist newspaper and magazines to each other.
The Peoples Assembly is of course nothing of the sort and is run by the Counterfire group led by Lyndsey German & John Rees (a breakaway from the Socialist Workers Party). This couple also run the Stop the War Campaign and earn a crust or two by appearing on Press TV, the mouth piece of the gay hanging clerics of Iran.
Given the supposed size of the Labour left and their somewhat aggressive attitude you'd think that this demonstration would have attracted thousand upon thousands of the comrades. It didn't despite the fact huge numbers of Corbyn's supporters joined the anti-Brexit march last year.
The left has a problem. The new wave of young political activists are idealistic and particularly motivated by ideological rhetoric. They are very pro-Europe and have seen their opportunities taken away from them. Corbyn has been rumbled as being anti EU.
Of course this could have been discovered quite easily by googling old Steptoe on the subject but so many of these people only see and hear what they want to hear. Until now....
The hardcore who turned out yesterday were the members of the sects and groupscules that always turn up no matter what, with half of them buried in the Labour Party or just proclaiming their love for the new messiah and it will be their party who will lead the proletariat to Nirvana.
Meanwhile despite the comrades are always falling out with each other. Even the much lauded Momentum has it's internal splits as Jon Lansman faces opposition. A breakaway group "Grassroots Momentum" died a death but it's main protagonists the vile Tony Greenstein and a deranged anti Zionist harridan Jackie Walker have re-appeared in Labour Against the Witch Hunt and
All this infighting so typical of the far left continues all over the place even in the unions as the PCS union faces an election with no less than four far-left candidates all standing against each other.
No wonder socialism doesn't work. The socialists cannot even co-operate with each other.
Meanwhile the public seems to be uninterested in the various figures on the far left who have crawled out from under the rock in recent times and seem favourably disposed to David Milliband who despite having not being in the country for a while is still a possible contender for party leadership.
The rise of the left has been halted but it's not clear whether they will start to wither away immediately. Labour's membership is declining from a high-point caused by the "three-pounders" entering in droves but it may take time for sanity to return and probably not this side of the general election which is still far off.
Unless the Tories split as feared by the Sunday Telegraph today. That however is a tale for another day.
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