Thursday, 5 September 2013

The Labour Party: not dead yet



National newspapers are reporting the possible death throes of the Labour Party.  I do not know whether or not the Labour Party is on the verge of extinction, but I hope it is.

In 1924, the first ever Labour government sought to support the mass-murdering government of the Soviet Union, but fortunately did not last long enough to do so.   

In the 1940s the Labour Party supported Britain’s illegal involvement in the Second World War; and the Labour government that was elected in 1945 supported the unjust Nuremberg trials.

In the 1960s, a Labour government led by Harold Wilson supported the Nigerian government in the Biafran War in which an estimated two million children died of starvation. 

The most recent Labour government took part in illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the current leadership of the Labour Party has not ruled out support for an illegal war against Syria.

It is in short a political party which thoroughly deserves to cease to exist.  I am not prepared to say however that it will cease to exist merely because it is momentarily short of money.

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