Revolution Blues

MOST socialists are understandably very angry today at the decision yesterday to withhold the whip from Jeremy Corbyn, despite a lot of us not wanting him to return to the vipers’ den which is now the Labour Party. Of course, when I say most socialists, this doesn’t seem to include socialist MPs who may have tweeted in support of the reinstatement of the whip but who have otherwise done nothing. If they had the principles many of us thought they had they would have resigned. It really is that simple. We saw a few years ago when ChangeUK (forgive me for laughing when I think about them) was set up that there is apparently no need for by-elections if you change parties. And, more recently, by the dreadful decision by Starmer to admit Christian Wakeford into the Party. What are they afraid of? Surely Labour no longer represents what they say they represent. And as far as the man himself, it’s not as if Jeremy Corbyn would not be standing on the platform he has always stood on, and his con...

  TONY BLAIR seems to be coming in for an awful lot of stick just for getting an honour, which I for one am sure he richly deserves. And it came directly from Queenie herself, who we all know is an impeccable judge of character. After all, he and Bush got rid of Saddam Hussein and ensured there’d be a free flow of oil to the West. Things could have became very dire for us if they hadn’t done so as the 2001 report on ‘energy security’ commissioned by then US Vice-President Dick Cheney showed. “Iraq remains a destabilising influence to... the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East. Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own export programme to manipulate oil markets. This would display his personal power, enhance his image as a pan-Arab leader…” the report stated. So it was clear, we had to go to war. The WMDs were just a distraction, we all knew that and we didn’t care.  We should all know by now t...