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Monday, 7 May 2012

The Mistrust Within - Will it Lead to an (new) Implosion of the Labour Party?

Noticed these tweets earlier on Sunday from a staunch Labour lefty

Éoin Clarke ‏ @DrEoinClarke
Tony Blair's meetings, secret meetings with Blairite MPs have been going on for 13 months now. Not sure why it keeps getting rehashed as news
Éoin Clarke ‏ @DrEoinClarke
I could bore you with a list of who those MPs are (meeting Blair) but truth is you probably haven't heard of most of them. #StarStruck
and they appear to confirm what I suspected all along, and that is; you cannot trust a politician!

We all know that the labour left always hated Blair and what he stood for but that the Labour party, prior to Blair was to far to the left and too much in the pockets of the unions to ever get elected.  Blair and his cronies recognised this and somehow managed to oust power and position away from the left to win the 1997 election.

Since Blair and his warmongering ways are gone and he has rode off into the Sunset to become, I believe, the richest ex Labour Prime minister in history, leaving the country in the stewardship of Brown, who seemed to be despised in equal measure by all sides.  Now we have Milliband and a resurgence of the left and Dr Eoin Clarke being one of their more vocal spokespeople tweeting a daily tirade against the incumbent Coalition Government.

I have no problem with his comments, per say, governments and politics is fair game but his comments, about his own parties MP's who are seemingly meeting with Blair on a regular basis, show that there is a clear divide within the Labour party between the left and the centre right?

Is this a credible party then that anyone should be voting for?  A party that looks as if it will once again tear itself apart in dogfighting and mudslinging.  A party where MP are against MP, where mistrust and lying are the norm.  

Are these people, if they cannot be honest with each other, going to be honest with the British public, I hardly think so, do you?     


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4 comments:

  1. Unknown7 May 2012 at 09:56

    I can't agree with you enough. I don't trust any of them, I never have but the last few years have surprised even me.

    The labour left hate the moderate part of the party despite the success the party got.

    Blair turned out to be a warmongering, greedy shit.

    The Tories are as divided  as ever but controlled by the most heartless and selfish of people.

    The liberals turned out to be useless, and unable to keep a single promise.

    I have no idea who to support, none of them represent me, none of them can be trusted. I'm not on the left, I'm not on the right, the libdems are unrealistic... 

    What should we do Tom?

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  2. Unknown7 May 2012 at 10:33

    Ah! Therein lies the even bigger question Emma. And you will have the politicians and there followers roll out to the usual refrain of, "well if you don't like the system, get involved with it and change it!" A refrain, that is as old as politics and as useless as it.

    The problem with that is, that since time began those who did get involved have built dynasty's that are linked through the political parties and the businesses and unions that they (don't) represent. Anyone coming along who does so out of the frustrations that the likes of you and I feel stand no chance of getting into a position of power that would change the system for the better.

    The most obvious case in point in recent times really has to be the Liberal Democrats. People who were fed up with the strangle hold that Labour and the Conservatives had, and still do, and so they were born. But for the apathy of the electorate, an apathy that they cannot be blamed for, they will still be the little voice in the corner of the room that no one notices, not that the Conservatives are taking much notice of them as they prop them up in a bastardisation of a government.....

    I really don't know what the answer is but whatever it is I fear that you and I and our children will not see it and it will be more than a few generations down the line, hopefully, when the population of the world stops hating each other, surely there has to be a point in the future, when that will happen, and all the people's are treated fairly, that the system will change....

    As you can see, I am just a dreamer......

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  3. Julia Rachel Barrett7 May 2012 at 19:04

    Well, on this side of the pond, I assume all politicians are liars. Just the way it is.
    Anyone with an ounce of sense avoids politics.

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  4. MarylinWarner9 May 2012 at 05:00

    I always vote. At all levels and in all elections, I always vote, and I actually do my best to do research, listen to debates, attend meetings. In my younger years I was a delegate to the primaries several times.
    Now I don't remember the last time when I really believed in a person, platform, party, etc.
    I still always vote, always. But, sadly, I vote for what I believe is the lesser evil. This realization has been a bitter pill, and it still makes me choke when I vote.

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