Diane Abbott has gained enough nominations to get onto the Labour leadership ballot paper.
Dear Labour party: I trust you’ll let us all know when you are ready to stop with the tokenism, naval gazing and identity politics and get on with trying to form some kind of cohesive political/economic vision. If you recall, 60% of voters reject the one you presented in the election.
I mean, you do understand that this is why your are in the position of having to look for a new leader – right?
Bellow are bunch of comments culled from those submitted by Guardian readers:
Special interest groups have helped destroy Labour’s link with the public. It listens to identity politic groups far too much. Be it on immigration, feminism or race. Labour has completely lost touch with majority opinion.
Instead of listening to special interest groups Labour need to get it’s head out of it’s ass and listen to how the majority of people feel because they are now completely out of touch.
Pandering to muslim groups, church groups, feminist groups, race groups, etc won’t bring labour back into the main stream any more than promises of tax cuts could have brought the Tories back after they lost in 1997. In fact it will turn people off them. It’s part of the reason Ken lost to Boris and New Labour did so badly.
Stop promoting politics as self-contained career option. Stop supporting the careerist drones. We know who they are, we know their type: Uni politics to politico job / MP researcher / policy wonk to unwinnable seat to winnable seat to inner circle. Get yourself some characters who know something of the world and have something – anything – interesting to say.
1. Stop lying, manipulating the truth and denying responsibility for what went wrong – a big mea culpa and an even bigger ‘sorry’ is due to Britain
2. Stop bossing people around and trying to control every aspect of our lives
3. Stop demanding political solutions for every kind of human problem
4. Stop taxing-and-wasting to such a massive, gerrymandering extent
5. Stop patronising, belittling and ‘welfarising’ blue collar people, just offer opportunities
The emphasis on ‘youthful’ MPs kills politics for women. Many become seriously interested in politics once their children are independent. Joining a political party when you are 40+ pretty much guarantees you will never become an MP; & you haven’t a snowflake’s chance in hell of a ministerial position.
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