I suppose it's a measure of how successful facebook and Twitter have become that I suspect this could well be the first occasion this year that I have turned to my own Blog page to make a statement. Certainly, the fact that I struggled for several minutes trying to remember how to log-in supports that theory.
Anyway, the thought which prompted this momentous occasion concerns the recently departed Trades Union leader, Bob Crow; who, like many before him - Wilson, Maxwell, Scargill, Hatton, Sheridan, Blair and Mandelson (to mention but a few) espoused the virtues of socialism but lived the life of a capitalist.
I can't see them quaking in their boots at Brewers Green; but, the single most significant factor which has turned me away from The Labour Party is the ease with which those who represent it (at all levels) abandon their working-class roots and embrace Tory principles once the feel the effects of "power".
Shame on them.
Anyway, the thought which prompted this momentous occasion concerns the recently departed Trades Union leader, Bob Crow; who, like many before him - Wilson, Maxwell, Scargill, Hatton, Sheridan, Blair and Mandelson (to mention but a few) espoused the virtues of socialism but lived the life of a capitalist.
I can't see them quaking in their boots at Brewers Green; but, the single most significant factor which has turned me away from The Labour Party is the ease with which those who represent it (at all levels) abandon their working-class roots and embrace Tory principles once the feel the effects of "power".
Shame on them.
