The Labour Party might not be revolutionary, and its Leftism may be calculated to be somewhat palatable, but it is still unacceptably radical. It has always been too radical, from the very beginning right down to this very day. Keith Starmer, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Clement Atlee, Tony Benn, and David Milbank are no less unacceptably radical and leftist than Jeremy Corbyn, Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Alexander Kerensky, Fritz Ebert, David Lloyd George, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels themselves, or Gracchus Babeuf, Maximilien Robespierre, and even the Girondist regicides.
Yes. The 20 year modern Progressive Party State forged by the EU and entrenched here by the (seemingly moderate/reformist) Blair revolution IS trultly radical. It has seen party politics become an irrelevance. The captured power structures of the UK State – law, media, regulatory Blob, academia, public sector and civil service – been violently transformed in the last decade by mainly C21st ideologies. Net Zero eco extremism and degrowth are coupled with nasty last century class war and anti capitalism and the imported toxic mania of equality and identitarianism – and these are now the missions of the State. This is unprecedented. Revolutionary. Look at Starmer today. Hailing the mad bigots at National Trust; still intent on the destruction of elite education and his insane Biden Bailout Wet dream attached to ludicrous Gosplan targets. This is all going to hurt.
It’s Keir Starmer, not Keith. And Starmer is a leader more in tune with Ramsay Macdonald rather than with David Lloyd George – and even less in tune with the Marxists. I note that the other clumsy errors regarding names and spelling have already been pointed out by another commenter.
If the Labour party was any less radical, it would be indistinguishable from the Tory party. There would be no point in its existence, the country would be without an opposition party to hold the government to account, and we would have permanent dictatorship by the Tory party. Maybe that’s what you want, but it isn’t democracy.
Walter Marvell
3 months ago
Well at least we know now…like the Communist Party of the Soviet Union… they today govern as a class of ideological progressives in their own self interest by occupying the regulatory State machine beyond Showpony Westminster. Indifferent and hostile to ‘racist’ privileged white native people, they debauch our laws by bowing to non whites and militant isla. They seek to prosper via the rigged property market while consciously impoverishing the rest of us due to their hatred of us,& enterprise capitalism and their kneeling to the deranged eco degrowth cult. I prefer Ramsay.
Charles Stanhope
3 months ago
Mercifully nobody mentioned that yesterday was the centenary of the death of one Vladimir LENIN.
Martin McGuinness (IRA and Sinn Fein), after a long campaign against the British, finally met Queen Elizabeth wearing White Tie and tails. Do all political careers end in sellout?
Martin McGuinness first met the Queen in the foyer of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, while I was working there, rehearsing “The Importance of Being Earnest”.
A Dublin actor in our cast was selected to meet her (hands across the Border, I suppose).
Martin said something polite in Irish and they shook hands.
It was a very big thing.
In view of the assassination of the old paedophile Mountbatten, it seems odd but apparently true that it was Buck House that insisted, against the advice of Downing Street.
After that, an invitation to the Palace was a mere formality.
Diplomatic relations had been established.
Martin got a lot of stick in West Belfast when he agreed to attend a banquet in a monkey suit.
He simply pointed out that it marked the recognition of Sinn Féin by the Head of State as a significant player.
And he raised his glass to toast Her Majesty not as his Queen, but out of pure politeness, as his hostess.
Sellout? I can see none in Sinn Féin graciously accepting recognition from your Establishment that it simply cannot be ignored!
Martin McGuinness was a proud member of the IRA.
He was also an extremely accomplished statesman, forging a relationship with Ian Paisley which arguably nobody else could have done.
Sellout? I don’t think so.
Perhaps the reason Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley got on so well was because beneath all the ‘froth’ they were both Ulstermen, born and bred?
You are spot on about Mountbatten incidentally, a truly revolting piece of work.
I also seem to recall that during ‘internment’ in 1971, acting on the so called ‘intelligence’ of the B Specials*, the forces of the Crown raided the home of Martin McGuiness’s father. Unfortunately at that stage in life he was confined to a wheelchair and somewhat asthmatic. His son Martin put up ‘punchy’ resistance but was pummelled to the kitchen floor whilst his ailing farther was dragged out in the aforementioned wheelchair.
Not a good day for the Crown.
(* The ‘W*ffen SS’ of the Royal Ulster Constabulary or RUC.)
The Labour Party might not be revolutionary, and its Leftism may be calculated to be somewhat palatable, but it is still unacceptably radical. It has always been too radical, from the very beginning right down to this very day. Keith Starmer, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Clement Atlee, Tony Benn, and David Milbank are no less unacceptably radical and leftist than Jeremy Corbyn, Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Alexander Kerensky, Fritz Ebert, David Lloyd George, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels themselves, or Gracchus Babeuf, Maximilien Robespierre, and even the Girondist regicides.
I might have more faith in your knowledge of these things if you could spell Attlee correctly. And who is David Milbank? Do you mean Miliband?
Yes. The 20 year modern Progressive Party State forged by the EU and entrenched here by the (seemingly moderate/reformist) Blair revolution IS trultly radical. It has seen party politics become an irrelevance. The captured power structures of the UK State – law, media, regulatory Blob, academia, public sector and civil service – been violently transformed in the last decade by mainly C21st ideologies. Net Zero eco extremism and degrowth are coupled with nasty last century class war and anti capitalism and the imported toxic mania of equality and identitarianism – and these are now the missions of the State. This is unprecedented. Revolutionary. Look at Starmer today. Hailing the mad bigots at National Trust; still intent on the destruction of elite education and his insane Biden Bailout Wet dream attached to ludicrous Gosplan targets. This is all going to hurt.
It’s Keir Starmer, not Keith. And Starmer is a leader more in tune with Ramsay Macdonald rather than with David Lloyd George – and even less in tune with the Marxists. I note that the other clumsy errors regarding names and spelling have already been pointed out by another commenter.
If the Labour party was any less radical, it would be indistinguishable from the Tory party. There would be no point in its existence, the country would be without an opposition party to hold the government to account, and we would have permanent dictatorship by the Tory party. Maybe that’s what you want, but it isn’t democracy.
Well at least we know now…like the Communist Party of the Soviet Union… they today govern as a class of ideological progressives in their own self interest by occupying the regulatory State machine beyond Showpony Westminster. Indifferent and hostile to ‘racist’ privileged white native people, they debauch our laws by bowing to non whites and militant isla. They seek to prosper via the rigged property market while consciously impoverishing the rest of us due to their hatred of us,& enterprise capitalism and their kneeling to the deranged eco degrowth cult. I prefer Ramsay.
Mercifully nobody mentioned that yesterday was the centenary of the death of one Vladimir LENIN.
Are you sure? The Spectator has run a couple of pieces about Lenin and his legacy.
I meant on ‘the gilded pages of UnHerd’.
Lenin’s lesson for Western liberals – UnHerd
A couple of days early, but still…
And the commencement of effective government under one Josef STALIN.
Indeed!
Martin McGuinness (IRA and Sinn Fein), after a long campaign against the British, finally met Queen Elizabeth wearing White Tie and tails. Do all political careers end in sellout?
Martin McGuinness first met the Queen in the foyer of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, while I was working there, rehearsing “The Importance of Being Earnest”.
A Dublin actor in our cast was selected to meet her (hands across the Border, I suppose).
Martin said something polite in Irish and they shook hands.
It was a very big thing.
In view of the assassination of the old paedophile Mountbatten, it seems odd but apparently true that it was Buck House that insisted, against the advice of Downing Street.
After that, an invitation to the Palace was a mere formality.
Diplomatic relations had been established.
Martin got a lot of stick in West Belfast when he agreed to attend a banquet in a monkey suit.
He simply pointed out that it marked the recognition of Sinn Féin by the Head of State as a significant player.
And he raised his glass to toast Her Majesty not as his Queen, but out of pure politeness, as his hostess.
Sellout? I can see none in Sinn Féin graciously accepting recognition from your Establishment that it simply cannot be ignored!
Martin McGuinness was a proud member of the IRA.
He was also an extremely accomplished statesman, forging a relationship with Ian Paisley which arguably nobody else could have done.
Sellout? I don’t think so.
CENSORED.
Perhaps the reason Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley got on so well was because beneath all the ‘froth’ they were both Ulstermen, born and bred?
You are spot on about Mountbatten incidentally, a truly revolting piece of work.
I also seem to recall that during ‘internment’ in 1971, acting on the so called ‘intelligence’ of the B Specials*, the forces of the Crown raided the home of Martin McGuiness’s father. Unfortunately at that stage in life he was confined to a wheelchair and somewhat asthmatic. His son Martin put up ‘punchy’ resistance but was pummelled to the kitchen floor whilst his ailing farther was dragged out in the aforementioned wheelchair.
Not a good day for the Crown.
(* The ‘W*ffen SS’ of the Royal Ulster Constabulary or RUC.)
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McGuinness was a terrorist and a murderer. The only time I raised a glass to him was to celebrate his demise
Looks like a brilliant book.
Splitters!