Now I am going through a green period and looking at the Green Party as a possible new home. Difficult to imagine myself among them somehow, except that the analysis of the Green Left, particularly that of Derek Wall, who paid a visit here recently, is very, very, interesting and seemingly relevant to our times. Why stay among the neo-Tories of New Labour, when I could be with decent enthusiastic, ecosocialists ? I ask myself.
Monday 23 June 2008
Saying good bye to the Labour Party, again ?
The truth is that I have left the Labour Party, which I joined in 1950, twice before. The first time was in the heady sixties, when I joined the Independent Labour Party, only to immediately find myself in the middle of a debate about whether the ILP should return to affiliation with the Labour Party. The second was just a few years ago, when I became utterly sick of what New Labour were doing to the Party. I wandered around in the wilderness for a while and then thought how futile, I can't fight the bastards from here. I had written an angry resignation letter to the General Secretary, which I posted on 'What Next for Labour ?', but I received no reply. I cancelled my DD payment. A few months later I had a letter from HQ saying that there must be a fault at my bank as my subs had stopped coming through. Despite the angry letter, nobody had noticed my leaving. That puts both the importance the Labour Party attaches to its members and my own sense of self-importance, into some perspective.
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"Now I am going through a green period and looking at the Green Party as a possible new home."
You are not alone....I'm thinking of heading that way myself...as soon as is practically possible.
I left the Labour Party after Blair was elected as leader and abolished Clause 4. I have never regretted it.
I didn't vote for New Labour in the 1997 election or subsequent elections. I have never regretted this either.
As I watch the successors to Thatcher, the post-Thatcherite New Labour Party, dismantle the Welfare State, deprive citizens of their civil liberties, take the country into illegal and amoral wars, engage in social engineering and increasingly attempt to interfere citizens' private lives I feel exonerated, I least have none of their policies on my conscience but I feel for those who thought that they were heralding a new era free of Tory policy only to find that they had voted for a party that has taken all that was wrong with Thatcherism and built upon it.
Done a similar thing but went with SNP,SSP as 2nd vote no regrets.
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