Labour Conference: Uncomfortable Viewing

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Watching the first day of Labour Party conference made very uncomfortable viewing. The adoration in which Corbyn is held by so many delegates was disturbing and began to remind me of Michael Palin's visit to North Korea where he got pulled up by his minders watchers for having his hand in his pocket whilst looking at a statue of one of their "Dear Leaders".

Their were a huge number of first time delegates who seemed oblivious to the real world and one in particular caught my attention, Dave Mallon (Blythe Valley CLP) whose contribution about MP's standing in working class seats was bizarre to say the least. I don't think even he knew what point he was trying to make.

Speaker after speaker wanted automatic re-selection for every MP at every election stating this was democratic. Nobody is fooled by this. The whole process has been overtaken by the influx of new members who have been in the party for just five minutes, see everybody that doesn't agree with them as a "Red Tory" or worse a "Zionist & Racist" not understanding that Labour has always been a broad church and has always had a range of people across the left and centre left spectrrum.

No more it would seem. The requirement for MP's to "toe the line" as activists judge their actions will see Labour turn into a narrow ideologically blinkered party. There is very much the Leninist concept of "democratic centralism" either consciously or sub-consciously behind this. Labour is becoming something it was not intended to be. Not quite yet, but is certainly on the road to.

Even outside conference there is general unpleasantness being circulated. The comrades voted to prioritise "Palestine" (not Israel/Palestine) on the agenda over the NHS, Local Government Funding and Social Care. Entirely to get revenge for the NEC agreeing the IHRA statement. Add to ultra-leftism a hefty dose of anti-Semitism, which singling out Israel certainly is.


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The hate on for Israel has spilled over to the point whereby a Jewish Labour MP, Luciana Berger has to have police protection due to threats at a Labour Party Conference.

Let that sink in a minute.

It isn't safe for a Jewish MP to go back & forth to a Labour Conference in the 21st Century. And the new left tell us they are not anti-Semetic.

 Yet the hate for one country sees the Labour Party Marxists break the IHRA definition by hawking their bigotry splattered all over the groups literature. Of course the Labour Party Marxists are in breach of Labour Party rules anyway being an entryist front for the Communist Party of Great Britain (Weekly Worker). See: Labour Party Fringe (2) : Labour Party Marxists

This far left zealotry even saw Dawn Butler MP defend the Militant run council in the eighties. "It is better to break the law not the poor". This issue came up on Adam Bolton on Sky News this morning when this was put to two young activists at conference, one from progress the other from Momentum.

Guess what? The Momentum guy repeated the slogan "Better to break the law not the poor". The young lady from Progress tore him apart in her response pointing out you do not help the poor by sacking workers and closing services rubbing it in by sending redundancy notices by taxi. People want food on their table not some principle made from a stage.. The Momentum guy just shut up and moved on.

And that's the problem with the new breed of Labour Supporters they are a mix of the naive young, the regular attenders at demo's who can only spout slogans and tired out old lefties like Corbyn who just never grew up.

And we are only on day two of this awful gathering.