Comments by "80s Music" (@eightiesmusic1984) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1.  @michaelkenny8540  The media and many in the PLP undermined Corbyn. The policies in the manifesto in 2017 and 2019 were nothing out of the ordinary and would be part of the mainstream in most other European countries. The hysterical treatment of him underlines the extent to which Britain is in the grip of hard right extremism in the form of neoliberal policies that have left millions behind. Labour, of course, is now back on course to implement more of the same if it wins the next election. However, though the right does not realise, its project is over before taking office because it is doomed to fail with policies that will not address the UKs problems. Having hollowed out Labour, the Blairites are now blindly continuing on the same path oblivious to the consequences of their actions, one of which will be the rise of populist forces to fill the vacuum created by the absence of a party on the side of workers.
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  2. Make no mistake about it the current iteration of Labour is going to destroy the party once and for all. Labour has always been an accommodation between the interests of capital and labour, from the first Labour government in 1924 ( election December 1923) to more recent years. Kinnock moved the party to far to the right in the 1980s in an effort to win two elections and counteract Thatcherism, but this paved the way for Blair, after the tragic death of John Smith in 1994 ( Kinnock resigned in 1992 after losing his second election). Blair hollowed out the Labour Party, accepting the Thatcherite settlement. There is a disconnect between the party activists and the MPs ( PLP), with the activists generally to the left of the parliamentary party. Starmer has purged the left and this will, in time, mean the end of his project. Key figures from the Blair era are back on the scene pulling strings in an attempt to re-run the push for victory in 1997. The problems of today are incomparable to the nineties, far more complex and intractable in many cases. Streeting is an ambitious right winger who is from the right of the party. It is by no means certain that Labour will win the next election but even if it does it will implement the same failed neoliberal policies that have destroyed Britain since 1979.Left wing candidates are not being selected for the next election; there will be no room for debating policy under a Starmer premiership. Anyone interested in his career trajectory so far might want to read The Starmer Project, by Oliver Eagleton. The refrain that Labour is not a party of protest repeated by the right is nonsensical and designed to discredit the left. Every politician on the left has always wanted Labour in power to effect change; they are not in politics to pass the time of day. The subtext, of course, is that Labour under the grip of the right will do nothing to ameliorate the excesses of capitalism. It means the end of Labour and is a dangerous crossroads for Britain; watch the forces of populist reaction step into the vacuum created by a party that has abandoned working people to their fate under neoliberalism.
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