Labour needs someone with the guts to tell the party what it must do to avoid disaster

Tina

Great piece.

Gautam Sen

And why does the usually innocuous Fraser Nelson have any interest in 'saving' Labour? These are people who have turned a serious economic setback into absolute calamity. No clue, but daily complacent arrogance from a front bench that mostly never experienced a day's productive employment, moving straight from the turgid inanities of student politics and the absurdity of the Labour Research dept to high political office. Please, let us suffer homelessness, long walks (since petrol is going out fashion and only a few can afford London's transport) and starvation rations (no 19 course G-8 feasts) but no more of Ball, the Miliband's, Kelly's and, god preserve us, the deputy leader of the Labour Party. As one coughs to death with a hospital-acquired infection please let us not have grievous insult added to injury.

M McGregor

So what is "best for the Party"? Obviously being less hopelessly incompetent would be a start, and it might be nice if Labour were not so corrupt, self-seeking, dishonest and cynical - but on that they are neck-and-neck with the Conservatives. Thanks to a carefully preserved system which ensures the domination of the two main parties, while they're both as bad as each other the electorate feels it has no choice but to select the lesser of two evils; whichever that might be at any particular moment, depending on who last let the mask slip badly.

We won't bring in ideology or morality; this is, after all, the modern British political scene. It's so common to see politicians of either 'side' calling for changes of policy (or pretended changes of policy) on the grounds of pure expediency, the public generally doesn't even register the hypocrisy. Their 'beliefs' are often so similar anyway, with even the Tory leader openly regarding himself as the heir to Tony Blair, and saying that he "likes" what has been done to Britain. Then again, many are so deeply involved with personal advancement that they are blind to how their behaviour reveals their priorities.

Labour's core support always came from the British working class, which still retains many old- fashioned virtues, including patriotism. While these voters were occupied by the benefits of an artificially high standard of living, the Party has been able to pursue its vicious programme of erradicating British traditional values, standards, and the very racial & cultural identity of the nation itself, largely unnoticed by anybody who cares except the BNP, which was easily stifled or sabotaged by means of the all-powerful media.

Now this is coming to an end. The bulk of the population which still has the misfortune to be White, law-abiding, and sexually normal is becoming aware that its financial security is about to disappear due to the policies of the same people who have been dismantling their country.
What would be best for Labour (and,indeed, the Conservatives)would be for its decent membership to expel the marxists, pseudo-liberals,
cranks, and parasites who presently infest it; but as this will never happen, it should 'shut up shop' and make way for a party that will actually care about its own people, and actually do what it promises.