One possible result of all the work that pro-Palestine activists have done and, of course, the bravery of the Palestinian people themselves in the face of Israeli genocide
I would rather watch paint dry, Alan, than see Tweedledum and Tweedledee Playing what passes for politics according to 'our' media.
As Hazlett wrote in the 19th century "The two parties are like rival stagecoaches, that go by the same road to the same place, but splash mud at each other on the way". I grasped this at age 16 and so have the British public, but how do we create a movement out of this as a single issue, with so many hurting from stress, poverty, fear for the present & future, poor diet & health and many other material concerns. People need hope, and many therefore allow their critical faculties to melt away when Starmer lies about making a difference?
"There — it sickens one to have to wade through this grimy sea of opportunism. What a spectacle of shuffling, lies, vacillation and imbecility does this Game Political offer to us? I cannot conclude without an earnest appeal to those Socialists, of whatever section, who may be drawn towards the vortex of Parliamentarism, to think better of it while there is yet time.
“If we ally ourselves to any of the presen[t] parties they will only use us as a cat’s-paw; and on the other hand, if by any chance a Socialist slips through into Parliament, he will do so at the expense of leaving his principles behind him; he will certainly not be returned as a Socialist, but as something else; what else is hard to say. As I have written before in these columns, Parliament is going just the way we would have it go. Our masters are feeling very uncomfortable under the awkward burden of GOVERNMENT, and do not know what to do, since their sole aim is to govern from above. Do not let us help them by taking part in their game. Whatever concessions may be necessary to the progress of the Revolution can be wrung out of them at least as easily by extra-Parliamentary pressure, which can be exercised without losing one particle of those principles which are the treasure and hope of Revolutionary Socialists.” — William Morris, the Commonweal, Volume 1, Number 10, November 1885, p. 93.[1]
Has anything changed in the 139 years since William Morris wrote this? I don't think so. Let's face it, there is no politics in the UK and there can't be without political opposition.
One possible result of all the work that pro-Palestine activists have done and, of course, the bravery of the Palestinian people themselves in the face of Israeli genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/06/keir-starmer-expected-push-palestinian-state-labour-manifesto
Two things:
1) Apologies for a bad typo in a subhead. I obviously meant " collusion" and not "collision";
2) Good piece on debate by Another Angry Voice" ; https://anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/the-despair-is-deliberate Alan
I would rather watch paint dry, Alan, than see Tweedledum and Tweedledee Playing what passes for politics according to 'our' media.
As Hazlett wrote in the 19th century "The two parties are like rival stagecoaches, that go by the same road to the same place, but splash mud at each other on the way". I grasped this at age 16 and so have the British public, but how do we create a movement out of this as a single issue, with so many hurting from stress, poverty, fear for the present & future, poor diet & health and many other material concerns. People need hope, and many therefore allow their critical faculties to melt away when Starmer lies about making a difference?
So how do you propose we change this?
"There — it sickens one to have to wade through this grimy sea of opportunism. What a spectacle of shuffling, lies, vacillation and imbecility does this Game Political offer to us? I cannot conclude without an earnest appeal to those Socialists, of whatever section, who may be drawn towards the vortex of Parliamentarism, to think better of it while there is yet time.
“If we ally ourselves to any of the presen[t] parties they will only use us as a cat’s-paw; and on the other hand, if by any chance a Socialist slips through into Parliament, he will do so at the expense of leaving his principles behind him; he will certainly not be returned as a Socialist, but as something else; what else is hard to say. As I have written before in these columns, Parliament is going just the way we would have it go. Our masters are feeling very uncomfortable under the awkward burden of GOVERNMENT, and do not know what to do, since their sole aim is to govern from above. Do not let us help them by taking part in their game. Whatever concessions may be necessary to the progress of the Revolution can be wrung out of them at least as easily by extra-Parliamentary pressure, which can be exercised without losing one particle of those principles which are the treasure and hope of Revolutionary Socialists.” — William Morris, the Commonweal, Volume 1, Number 10, November 1885, p. 93.[1]
Has anything changed in the 139 years since William Morris wrote this? I don't think so. Let's face it, there is no politics in the UK and there can't be without political opposition.