We are not all Blairites or Bennites

I am getting fed up with people think that in the Labour Party you are either a New Labour Blairite or an Old Labour Bennite, like the media seems to protray the party as, it is simply not true, there is an alternative within the party from the two extremes, be it the extreme right of the party with Blairism and the Blairites or the extreme left of the party with the Bennite idealogy and Bennites.

There are still people inbetween the two extremes in the Labour Party, either on the right of what was Old Labour or on the left of what is New Labour, the people who do not think competition in the NHS is the correct and is against the core believes of the Labour movement, the people in Labour who oppose the Education Bill (the one that needed Tory support....which saids alot about what the Bill is about), the people who oppose Nationalisation but also oppose further Privatisation, the ones who support stronger redistribution of Wealth, the ones who support a slow, progressive increase in the minimum wage and not a dirty great big increase that will be disasterous, the ones who want to support the Trade Unions without going back to the days of the 1970s, those who support the new Clause IV, those of us who believe PFIs are disasterous for public services, those of us who want a modern Labour Party that has mordern Labour vaules but think that Blairism has pushed the Party so far towards the right of politics that it does things which no other Labour government would do, but we also know that we cannot go back to Michael Foots' Labour Party of the 1980s, but a pragmatic centre of the Party which neither the Blairties or Bennites belong too.

I know that many people in New Labour believe that if you don't want a concrete statue of Tony Blair errected in the Middle of London (that is a statue in the image of Tony Blair and not Tony Blair himself covered in Concrete....) then you must be a far left wing loony socialist who wants to go back to the 1980s and renationalise everything and give into the trade unions, like John Ried keeps trying to scare us with ("ooooo, we must keep Tony Blair because anyone who speaks out against him and wants him to go is a dangerous Old Labour boogyman....booooo, scary, back into 40 billion years of oppisition, if Tony Blair goes, Trae Unions running the counry, we wikll have spring, summer, Autums and Winters of discontent, Zombies will wlak the Earth, Criminals will run riot, everyone will be running around in rags, terrorists will be blwoing us up every day under Old Labour, Old Labour will declare Athur Scargill the lord ruler elite of all of the UK, raise the minimum wage by £100,000,000 daily, nationalise everything and everyone and do...oooooo nasty things to your children....Only Blair can stop these bunch of people in straight jackets")

Of course this is not true and is nothing but scare tatics, trying to scare the Labour Party members, pragmatic MPs, AMs, MSPs, MEPs, and the electolrate, I personally hopes that this scare tatic by the delucded Blairites (and Blairites are getting more and more deluded by the day) do not work, Labour cannot take any more Blairism, it is killing the party, taking us back to the 1980s.

I fear for the future of the Party if Blair stays on any longer then early 2007, or if another Blairite takes over after Tony, however only time will tell....



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