Mr. Perrin’s blog: “A Word in Your Ear”.
I hope the result of the General Election will clearly demonstrate that the majority of the population of the United Kingdom are caring compassionate people who are concerned about the welfare of less fortunate members of society, are not hard-hearted, money grabbing, and selfish. That is to say, I hope the people will vote for a caring compassionate Party/Government which protects the interests and welfare of all the people not just those of the well-off and privileged few. I know that some will say I must be out of my mind or just plain stupid when I say; in my view the only Party committed to providing such a Government is the Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn. I will try to explain why I believe that to be so.
Despite the fact that Jeremy Corbyn has twice been democratically elected as Leader by members of the Labour Party, supporters and affiliated trade unionists, both times with a massive majority, a considerable number of members of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), including some of the other leadership candidates, resent his victories and from day one of his first victory in 2015 have continuously plotted and schemed to oust him from the Leadership. “Et tu, Brute?”
Jeremy Corbyn is not responsible for the parlous state of the Labour Party, on the contrary, it is “grandees” such as Hilary Benn and Chuka Umunna along with other “Blairites” who are to blame, they view Jeremy Corbyn as a “left wing Socialist upstart” who should know his place and desist from ambitions above his station. Veteran Labour MP, Ronnie Campbell, says “Labour MPs from the “Blairite” wing have been acting like they were “born to rule” and (only they) are entitled to choose the Party Leader, they should keep their mouths shut and let Jeremy Corbyn get on with his job”. This from a man, who was a coal miner, has been a Labour Party MP since 1987 and took part in the 1984 miners strike.
I suspect the arrogant “Blue Labour Blairites” will claim he is just a lowly ex-miner, what does he know about politics, know your place. But what I despise most of all about the dissenting MPs, and their supporters, is they seek to justify their conduct by claiming they do so because they consider Jeremy Corbyn to be unfit, unqualified to be Prime Minister, and it is they who are more fitted and better qualified, such arrogance and pomposity is despicable and unworthy of those who claim to be motivated by the desire to protect the less well-off and the disadvantaged from the excesses of a Conservative government. I am astonished, nay dismayed, that these dissenting Labour MPs and their supporters consider a person who advocates a caring, fairer society for all, especially the low paid worker, the unskilled young who cannot get a job or a place to live, those who rely on food banks to feed their children, the old, the sick, the mentally ill, the unemployed and all disadvantaged people, is unfit to lead the Labour Party let alone become Prime Minister. If the dissenting Labour MPs and their supporters truly believe such sentiments make Jeremy Corbyn unelectable, in my opinion, that is more a damning indictment of them than it is of him.
I believe the UK would be a fairer, more caring society with a Socialist Labour Government led by Jeremy Corbyn.
all my family were brought up to vote labour but i doubt if any of them would vote for jeremy.
Sorry I am not voting Labour I remember the Blair years. The Blairights will stab him in the back again. to me the blairights are Blue Labour. Tories in denial.
I will not vote for JDP the tories only give a shit about the Rich. look at JDP switched her position since the election was called on the crossing.
“This Lady is for turning”
Lib Dem sold out the students.
UKIP are dead as a duck they have served there purpose.
Hope the green’s stand or its another vote with ALL CRAP on it..
Mr Perrin and myself may have our differences but I have to say that there isn’t a word I don’t agree with in this column.
I have thought further about this blog and make the bold statement.
I am a socialist in as much as I want a NHS and Education publically owned.
But Electric or Railways Privately owned, which puts me as a capitalist.
So what am I? who should I vote for. the Tories will sell off Health and education but labour want to nationalise too much..
Or UKIP they are a one trick pony and served there only purpose.
Lib Dem? Oh wait they sold out the students remember.
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
A few reasons why I won’t be voting Labour. Firstly, Corbyn and Mcdonell are both terrorist supporters/sympathisers. Corbyn regards Hesbollah and Hamas as his friends. He refuses to condemn the IRA bombings, and regards Bin Laden’s death as a ‘tragedy’.
Secondly, Labour have made a fine art of running the economy into the ground every time they get in power. I’m no Tory, but their record regarding the economy looks a lot better than Labour’s. Thirdly, with the Brexit talks coming up, I can see the EU walking all over Corbyn and Labour, and the UK ending up worse off than when we were members. Open door immigration will continue, and we’ll still be paying vast sums of money into EU coffers. Lastly, the thought of Diane Abbott and Emily Thornberry being part of our government makes me want to puke. Somebody ( I think it was Thatcher) once said of socialism, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” Never were truer words spoken.
I will be voting UKIP as their manifesto is far and away the best one out there, with some fantastic policies including reducing foreign aid from 0.7% gdp to 0.2%, saving £11billion a year, and putting it into the NHS and social care.