The Labour Party the party of the working man?

dogfood · Post by **dogfood** » 17 Jul 2007, 11:06

Boll*x

10 years of New Labour and the result is the gap between rich and poor is at its widest for 40 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/you ... 901147.stm

Margaret Thatcher would be proud.

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » 17 Jul 2007, 11:55

Never has been a party of or for the working man,it's always maintained privilege and patronage.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 17 Jul 2007, 12:54

This poster says it all

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 17 Jul 2007, 14:26

Spartacus wrote:Never has been a party of or for the working man,it's always maintained privilege and patronage.

Of course it has. They can tolerate so-called disenters like Skinner, Bevan, Lansbury, the young Tony Benn, not so Red Ken because they'll always be outnumbered by middle-class people like Blair, Cripps, Gaitskell, Atlee, etc, etc.
All the Labour Party is, is a means of channelling the aspirations of the workers down a nice Parliamentary cul-de-sac rather than allow the feeling of the workers to boil over into revolution where some real change might be effected.

Come on Billy Hayes, stop funding these war mongering, ward shutting, school closing, fascist supporting, big business loving stooges of the ruling class!

kinmad4it · Post by **kinmad4it** » 17 Jul 2007, 14:33

I've yet to find any party that I agree with. A cross between the BNP and Greenpeace would be close. Odd I know, but I never said I was normal.

ROCKY · Post by **ROCKY** » 17 Jul 2007, 16:00

thank god you didnt your nose would be massive by now otherwise

ajohnstone · Post by **ajohnstone** » 17 Jul 2007, 18:00

It says it all - Brown-nosing Brown

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 17 Jul 2007, 18:06

Looking at the bottom I can't wait till the fall of Alan Johnson

Steven · Post by **Steven** » 17 Jul 2007, 18:29

kinmad4it wrote:I've yet to find any party that I agree with. A cross between the BNP and Greenpeace would be close. Odd I know, but I never said I was normal.

I think this industrial action would be dealt with a bit differently if the BNP were in power kinmad. Fascists have never been too keen on workers standing up for themselves

ajohnstone · Post by **ajohnstone** » 17 Jul 2007, 18:29

Postman's knock?
â€œDevotees of conspiracy theories could be excused for descrying some determined backroom manoeuvring to ensure so swift a climb up the Greasy Poleâ€

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 17 Jul 2007, 18:34

Steven wrote:
kinmad4it wrote:I've yet to find any party that I agree with. A cross between the BNP and Greenpeace would be close. Odd I know, but I never said I was normal.
I think this industrial action would be dealt with a bit differently if the BNP were in power kinmad. Fascists have never been too keen on workers standing up for themselves

That's why they're trying to set up their own scab union. I doubt there will be much of a spirit of international brotherhood in that lot.

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 17 Jul 2007, 18:39

[quote="ajohnstone"]Postman's knock?
â€œDevotees of conspiracy theories could be excused for descrying some determined backroom manoeuvring to ensure so swift a climb up the Greasy Poleâ€

Steven · Post by **Steven** » 17 Jul 2007, 18:41

IWW Fellow Worker wrote:
Steven wrote:
kinmad4it wrote:I've yet to find any party that I agree with. A cross between the BNP and Greenpeace would be close. Odd I know, but I never said I was normal.
I think this industrial action would be dealt with a bit differently if the BNP were in power kinmad. Fascists have never been too keen on workers standing up for themselves
That's why they're trying to set up their own scab union. I doubt there will be much of a spirit of international brotherhood in that lot.

I hear they have 3 members now

Their founder said the rich were genetically superior to the rest of us

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 17 Jul 2007, 18:47

Steven wrote:
IWW Fellow Worker wrote:
Steven wrote:
kinmad4it wrote:I've yet to find any party that I agree with. A cross between the BNP and Greenpeace would be close. Odd I know, but I never said I was normal.
I think this industrial action would be dealt with a bit differently if the BNP were in power kinmad. Fascists have never been too keen on workers standing up for themselves
That's why they're trying to set up their own scab union. I doubt there will be much of a spirit of international brotherhood in that lot.
I hear they have 3 members now Their founder said the rich were genetically superior to the rest of us

He would do! He's a landowner in Wales. But you do have to wonder at the mentality of anyone who throws live ammunition onto a camp fire. Anyway, the latest news is 'Solidarity' have already split.

kinmad4it · Post by **kinmad4it** » 17 Jul 2007, 20:24

Stalin certainly wasn't up for speaking out or speaking against him. Nor was Mao Ze-Dong. His figures make Hitler look like a part time genocidal maniac. Which he obviously wasn't of course. Depending on which sources to look into he killed almost 80 million people

And they aren't what you'd call capitalists.