Labour just isn’t cool enough to elect a Terminator as leader
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The McDonnell Systems Model 101
The Tory press are up in arms about a joke made by Labour leadership candidate John McDonnell at a trade union hustings.
You might remember that after the election we tipped McDonnell as one of the few good guys to get elected to the Westminster Parliament. Despite still being a member of the Labour Party, which as a whole is a right wing bunch of neoliberal warmongering shitebags, he as an individual remains a decent, principled socialist.
Now he’s one of six candidates to become the new leader of Labour after Gordon Brown stepped down. But he doesn’t even stand a chance of getting on the ballot paper, because unfortunately he’s a member of the wrong party, and not enough of his right wing fellow Labour MPs will nominate him.
The thing about being a socialist in the Labour Party nowadays is it might mean you can get yourself a platform in parliament like John has, but you can achieve bugger all with it when there’s not a chance of Labour moving in any serious way to the left.
So you might as well crack some jokes that will ruffle feathers!
At a GMB union hustings, John declared that he’d like to “go back in time to the 80s and assassinate Margaret Thatcher.”
We think this is a fantastic plan, and would like to suggest that when he fails to become leader of the Labour Party, John considers a new career as time traveling cyborg killing machine in the service of the Left. In this case he wouldn’t even have to waste his time ploughing through all the Margaret Thatchers in the phone book like Arnie had to in the 80s, as everyone would know Thatcher’s address.
The Tories are pretending to be outraged by this, with the Telegraph branding his comments “sickening” and “disgusting”, while the Conservative Home blog declared them to be “utterly despicable.”
But if time travel were to become available, surely one of the key priorities for its use would be to take out the woman responsible for smashing the trade unions, decimating working class communities and privatising everything in sight? Quite a few Labour members have said his comments were unacceptable and will damage Labour. But if anything it can only help the party in working class areas where hatred of the Dark One is still visceral, and where people will party when she dies. It drew applause and laughter from the audience of trade unionists. It certainly put him up in our estimation, given the amount of people who we’ve called on to be expelled from this world.
Right now John has 7 nominations, well short of the 30 odd needed to get on the ballot paper. He’s got til Wednesday to get the needed number, and it’s just not going to happen. The fact of the matter is that Labour are no way cool enough to elect someone who would say something like this. You can’t imagine any of the Milliballs clones saying something that would break their facade of replicant like attempts to appeal to the right wing voters of south east England.
Our message to any socialists and trade unionists still involved in the Labour Party is simple: Come with us if you want to live!
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McDonnell is up to 15 nominations, and hilariously Diane Abbott’s supporters are asking him to stand down so that she has more chance of getting on the ballot. Abbott is currently on 9. lol
No left candidate will make it on the ballot- McDonnell is the only left candidate, certainly not the dismal, self serving Abbot.
I think he’s a nice enough guy but why did he vote for the Digital Economy Bill?
Presumably it would have exposed Skynet/McDonnell systems.
Lol @ Andy Bowden.
On Facebook there was a statement about the Digital Economy Bill from John on the ‘Re-Elect John McDonnell’ page, but it looks like it’s been lost now as the page has become John4Leader and is inundated with new posts.
His argument was basically that he’d been to the musicians’ union conference, and they were for it because they say their members are getting ripped off. I thought his position was shite, and if it’s the musicians’ union position I think that’s also shite. I wanted us to do an open letter to him about it, but we had other more pressing things on and the moment has kind of passed now.
John McDonnell pulled out of the Labour leadership race this morning, advising his supporters to back Diane Abbott’s campaign in order to make sure there is a woman involved in the contest.
At the time of his decision he had 16 nominations, with Abbott having received 11.
It was generally considered that though most (if not all) of his supporters would be willing to support the only female to stand for the position, many of her centrist supporters would never be willing to back McDonnell due to his support for workers in struggle and association with the ‘hard left’.
Abbott, a member of the Socialist Campaign and considered to be on the centre-left of the party, eventually received the requisite 33 nominations in order to get on the ballot paper. Blairite forerunner David Miliband was on hand to help her over the finish line, giving her his nomination.
Votes are set to be cast at the Labour conference in September.
Millibands help for Abbott exposes the cynicism of the labour leadership- she was backed as the safe “left” candidate to ensure McDonnell wouldnt get on the ballot and to keep on board all the useful working class idiots who still back this party, so they could have a bit of diversity in the form of a black women candidate, even though she is another Oxford educated fake left/champagne socialist.
Any idiot who thought that [and amongst socialists there are so many] the Labour party would see a revival of its phantom left wing must surely eventually wake up to the fact that this party is an out and out neo liberal, capitalist party where socialism in any meaningful sense doesnt exist.
There’s interesting articles on the Labour leadership debate at the Commune:
http://thecommune.wordpress.com/