New Labour are in trouble.

New Labour are undoubtedly in trouble. Should I really care about this ? From joining the Labour Party in 1950, I have experienced many ups and downs. The post-war Labour Government, so full of hope, built the welfare state, the most civilised thing that any government has achieved in this country. Unfortunately its foreign policy was seriously misguided, as always.

Who could have imagined the advent of New Labour in those promising times ? A project devoted to privatisation and neoliberalism generally and the support of immoral imperial wars. Bathos gone mad. So now New Labour are in trouble, why should I care ? Why did the fools in my party allow New Labour to take control in the first place ? Winning was everything for them, but they could have won a much greater and more enduring victory. I care about New Labour being in trouble, not because I care about the assorted Blairites and Brownites pursuing their putrid political careers. A curse on both their houses. If New Labour are in trouble, then the Labour Party itself is in trouble. Is there still enough of the Labour Party, beyond the dominant New Labour hierarchy, left to be worth saving ? I don't know.

I would like to see a united opposition emerge now. The Labour Representation Committee and Compass, with others, united to replace the neoliberals with an authentic social democratic programme. I am not crying for the moon, as much as I might like to see the development of an international movement for socialist democracy. But here and now, do the LRC and Compass have the moral courage to overcome their differences and take the lead ?

The Green Left in the Green Party look so enticing to me. We can't wait on Labour forever.

Greetings to fellow carers and their carees.