Quote of the day 26th February 2020
‘I hate Tories’ won’t put Labour back in power
“Those who still insist that Jeremy Corbyn ‘won the argument’ at the last election, despite leading his party to its worst defeat since the 1930s, take a strange pride in turning inwards ...
Zarah Sultana, the new Labour MP for Coventry South, says she cannot see a Conservative in the House of Commons without thinking about ‘the harm they’ve caused’.
She is so hostile to her political opponents that, during the recent elections for Commons select committee chairs, she tweeted a video of herself putting flyers from Tory MPs into the bin — an entirely futile gesture because the committees are divided up between the parties, based on their representation in parliament.
Her commitment to the left-wing cause is so total that she even lumps her own party’s moderates in with the wicked Tories, calling in her maiden speech for the end of ‘40 years of Thatcherism’ as if the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had never existed.
For this faction of the party, holding power is itself a betrayal.”
“Those who still insist that Jeremy Corbyn ‘won the argument’ at the last election, despite leading his party to its worst defeat since the 1930s, take a strange pride in turning inwards ...
Zarah Sultana, the new Labour MP for Coventry South, says she cannot see a Conservative in the House of Commons without thinking about ‘the harm they’ve caused’.
She is so hostile to her political opponents that, during the recent elections for Commons select committee chairs, she tweeted a video of herself putting flyers from Tory MPs into the bin — an entirely futile gesture because the committees are divided up between the parties, based on their representation in parliament.
Her commitment to the left-wing cause is so total that she even lumps her own party’s moderates in with the wicked Tories, calling in her maiden speech for the end of ‘40 years of Thatcherism’ as if the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had never existed.
For this faction of the party, holding power is itself a betrayal.”
The above is set of extracts from an article in The Times by Rachel Sylvester on the self-defeating partisan politics of the hard left.
It is worth pointing out that the left of the Labour party are far from being the only people who are prone to falling into the self-defeating trap of demonising those who disagree with you.
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