Andy Beckett’s article on how leftwing views have been systematically marginalised, even demonised, in the Labour party accords with my own experience . As a student in the mid-1950s I absorbed socialist ideas but rejected joining the Communist party and was held back from joining the Labour party by the antagonism between the Gaitskellites and the Bevanites. However, I eventually joined at the time of the Suez crisis and remember how enthusiastic I was when reading the housing policy document.
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Tom Watson sets up centre-left group within Labour partyFuture Britain Group seen as response to apparent inaction by Corbyn over party crises Interesting! He can't call it The Independent Group as that name is already taken. God this is embarrassing
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Beware the hard-left mafia tightening its grip on the Labour Party.MrTCHarris Beware the hard-left mafia tightening its grip on the Labour Party MrTCHarris Mafia now is it haha MrTCHarris What is hard-left mafia? Mafia don't care about ideology. They are opportunists. Putin is mafia. Is he hard-left or hard-right? I think he is both. (And he is very happy with Brexit.) MrTCHarris
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The Guardian view on workers’ rights: endangered by Brexit | EditorialEditorial: The government’s offer to give MPs more scrutiny of changes to employment regulation is both flimsy and cynical Exactly ! And this is another strong reason for cancelling Brexit - the sooner better! theresa_may isn't very funny. Ugh. She has eyes like marbles. Yuck.
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