Labour lost. Stop the infighting. People can’t afford lefty petulance.

Am gracing you all with the tweets below, because I can’t stand the Labour intra-party bitching I’m seeing on twitter and facebook (could be a certain irony in going on twitter to attack people for being on twitter, but let’s do it).

Labour failed for a million reasons, supreme among which was and is a poisonous and self-indulgent factionalism that couldn’t be less interesting to 99.9% of the rest of us.

The main moral of the teachings below: get off fucking twitter and go and do something useful for the many people in poverty who really will need support when Boris Johnson gets going (those already making such contributions are of course excused from this instruction. Go well).

The harsh truth: outside of lefty and Labour circles, nobody gives a damn what goes on in those circles. I’ve been talking to people at jobcentres and foodbanks for over 10 years and literally nobody has ever said anything along the lines of, “how about that Owen Jones then,” or, “isn’t Margaret Hodge a witch,” or “yay, Novara media,” or “oh, Jeremy Corbyn,” or, “can I get involved in my local Labour branch,” or “how do I join Unite,” or anything remotely near those. People say things like, “I’m in arrears and they’re going to evict me,” and “I’m at court next week for council tax,” and, “I only got 2 days’ work this week and they didn’t text me this morning, so I’m fucked.”

So:

 

 

 

So that’s twitter told. Simple stuff, I know, but surely no less sophisticated than a tweet in which some thinker calls Jonathan Freedland a prick, or Owen Jones a cock, or Watson a fanny, or Corbyn a bellend, or whatever.

How you can help

Going to add to this list – here are some activist groups that I work with and you can get involved in. Leave your politics and views (and goddamned phone) at home, and put people who need support at front and centre:

Kilburn unemployed workers’ group – user-led benefits support group which holds a weekly meeting and clinic for people who are struggling with what remains of the benefits “system.” Leaflets regularly at jobcentres.

Stockport United Against Austerity – same as above, in Stockport.

Charlotte’s weekly leafleting, advice and food parcels session at Ashton Under Lyne jobcentre.

Focus E15: weekly leafleting session outside Wilko on the Stratford Broadway. Hand out leaflets. Talk with the many people who have shocking housing problems. Offer to go to housing meetings at the council if people want that.

There will also be your local foodbank(s) – usually plural. If there are limits to the time you can spare, make donations.

Etc

PS – took the Get Over It out of the heading because misinterpretation. The rest of it – carry on. Am in the last couple of weeks of finishing my book, so normal service will resume in the New Year.

323 thoughts on “Labour lost. Stop the infighting. People can’t afford lefty petulance.

  1. Jeremy Corbyn: Labour to vote on banning ex-leader standing as candidate

    In a statement, Mr Corbyn criticised the the Labour leader, claiming Sir Keir “has broken his commitment to respect the rights of Labour members and denigrated the democratic foundations of our party”.

    “I joined the Labour Party when I was 16 years old because, like millions of others, I believed in a redistribution of wealth and power,” he added.

    “Our message is clear: we are not going anywhere. Neither is our determination to stand up for a better world.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65088130

    • They really are like rats in a bloody sack that lot. They’re the same round here – local Labour purged one of their number who has now set up his own party for the council elections blah blah blah blah cost of living who cares all that matters to Labour is infighting. I hope they all go fanny up in a ditch.

      If they turn up here to doorknock, I’ll water cannon the self indulgent fuckers

      • Lol I like your turn of phrase. Starmer and his supporters, whether they’re post-Blairite neoliberals or Centrists, the ‘Progress’ lot, and probably the Glasmanite Blue Labour people too (who backed Ed Miliband), are so scared of rocking the Establishment boat that they make themselves ineffective, but do so as a strategy to get elected, at the expense of excluding and alienating the Left-wing Socialists that the Labour Party are meant to be! It’ll be a fucking miracle if they win a general election, and even if they do little will change. For now we’ve got an ineffective Opposition that are at war with their own members. Meanwhile in the real world outside Westminster the rest of us fight for survival.

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