Junior whip Siobhain McDonagh, an “arch-Blairite”, has been sacked by Gordon Brown for calling for a leadership challenge.
Here’s an interesting tidbit:
In another sign of discontent about Mr Brown, 12 Labour MPs have written a joint article for the Blairite magazine Progress calling for “a convincing new narrative” which is more than just “a series of policy initiatives”.
Sound familiar?
Interesting because Gordon Brown was once everyone’s darling alternative to Tony Blair. Now he has the job he’s nowhere as popular as his boosters thought he was. The situation reminds me of Howard & Costello in 2003. Just because the old leader has worn out his welcome doesn’t mean that a new one is the solution.
It’s the fate that awaits Costello, too. And he almost knows it.
Shit, sorry. Craig Mc sort of said that way back up thread. Heh, didn’t read the whole thing. Time constraints and all that.
What would a convincing democratic-socialist narrative look like?
More like libertarian-socialism I would suggest if it wants to live and evolve.
As opposed to either more authoritarian-socialist/Marxist or conservative. (Or both in bed together as in La Neocon camp.)
The democratic-socialist tradition is a reasonably fine one – with the odd lapse – and is sustainable moving forward PROVIDED it sees where the sole main chance rapidly evolving for hope is. And that is anarchism.