“If there is hope, it lies in the proles”, wrote George Orwell in 1984. If we ignore the negative connotations of the word and interpret the word “prole” to mean simply “workers”, he might have had a point with a direct resonance for Brexit Britain.It has been apparent for some time that the legitimate arguments… Continue reading If there is hope for Labour, it lies in the collision course being set with unions over workers’ rights
Month: December 2017
It is indeed Labour’s greatest crisis. This man should know
On Saturday, Labour’s Deputy Leader during the terrible 1980s, published a pieceentitled “Labour’s greatest crisis. Time to fight back”. It is not a bad summary of Labour’s current troubles. The trigger for the article was the Militant-style takeover of the Haringey party this week, providing uncomfortable echoes for those of a certain age of what… Continue reading It is indeed Labour’s greatest crisis. This man should know
The mind-boggling incompetence of the Brexit department
It is surely worth commenting on today’s Brexit select committee, where the world discovered that *drum roll* the impact analyses which were demanded by Parliament were not so much drafted at short notice, but did not actually exist at the time when the request was made and still do not exist. Such government incompetence in surely… Continue reading The mind-boggling incompetence of the Brexit department