Will There Be A Labour Party Left

[retrocop]

http://news.sky.com/story/1688489/anti-semitism-row-three-councillors-suspended

Dear oh dear Mikey,
For one who insists that he is a staunch anti racist I think you should consider jumping ship. Looks like the UKIP party don't hold a candle to your closet racists and anti -semitic shower.
Looking forward to the results in Wales soon. May be Tommy Robinson has a place for you in his party! :-)

[ToraToraTora]

one word retro "Riddled".

[retrocop]

Looking at the colour of his defaulters I suppose the race card could be played against jezza. Oh the joys of diversity in politics :-(
It just ends up as a major distraction whilst these idiots worry about their virtue signals. We have a referendum looming and whats on Labour's mind at the build up to it? Hardly a credible party but in disarray.

[Togo]

Labour long ago swapped the loyal working-class vote for the niche market of grievance seeking anti-Western misfits. Corbyn, Livingstone, and London Mayor candidate Sadiq Khan happily share platforms with anti-Semitic Islamists, gender fascists and public sector malcontents. But they ignore millions of hard working families who manage without welfare support, whilst turning a blind pc eye to millions of immigrants who will take the jobs of the very people they pretend to represent. Sick. They need condemning to the refuse bin of history like the Whigs.

[Zacs-Master]

When will politicians off all sides keep away from social meeeja?

[ToraToraTora]

just seen the one in the middle at the snooker!

[Quizmonster]

Re your title, Retrocop, you'd better hope so...otherwise, what on earth are you going to have to write about here on Answerbank?

[mikey4444]

If there proves to be anti-semitism in the Labour Party, then it should be stamped out, in the same way that it should treated in any other walk of life.

But this has all the hallmarks of a storm in a medium-sized teacup, and I can't help but think that the nearness of the Elections this week has had a large part to play.

But I won't be jumping ship as you suggest Retro, nor did I suspect that you thought that I would.

[youngmafbog]

//If there proves to be anti-semitism in the Labour Party, //

God God man, suggest an urgent trip to Specsavers is on the cards for you.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// But this has all the hallmarks of a storm in a medium-sized teacup, and I can't help but think that the nearness of the Elections this week has had a large part to play. ///

Oh so the culprits waited until the elections were near before coming out with their racist comments then?

Oh, how smart they are.

[jim360]

Well, at least one of the anti-Semitic incidents was from before 2014, or something like that, and only came out recently...

If the Labour Party does fade into nothingness, I think we should all lose something important in politics. Not for itself, perhaps, but unlike in the early 1920s when another great Party disappeared, there is no viable replacement for Labour as an opposition to the Tories. And if the government has nothing to oppose it, it has nothing to fear, and is in principle free to impose whatever policies it likes whether or not we voted for them. You can't vote a government out unless you can vote another one in in its place.

[Peter Pedant]

// Oh so the culprits waited until the elections were near before coming out with their racist comments then? //

o I hadnt realised that things maybe time dependent
well observed AOG
so the obvious thing ( good idea coming up everybardy !) is that when Leicester win something ( er once a century ! ) you release bad news and cover it with an email - this is a good day to bury news ....

haha never thought of that - I should be a politician .....

you get things and store them up for use in a later day ... yeah !

[Peter Pedant]

// And if the government has nothing to oppose it, it has nothing to fear,//

hi Jim...

what usually happens observationally in these cases is....
the credible opposition comes from inside the winning large party ....

[jim360]

That doesn't seem like an improvement, though. We would have a party of the right, and a party of the slightly less right, and nothing else to cover anything left of that.

[mushroom25]

//We would have a party of the right, and a party of the slightly less right, and nothing else to cover anything left of that. //

like in the Tony Blair years then, eh Jim?

[mikey4444]

There have been some incidents of anti-semitism, without doubt, but there is still no evidence of this being institutional.

The Labour Party will always be around, just as it was in May 1997, when it won the Election and returned to power with a parliamentary landslide, winning the biggest majority held by any government since 1935, something our resident right-wingers seem to conveniently forget.

And it can and will happen again. To suggest that we will be left with just the Tory Party and a few loony-tunes is plainly daft.

After a year when immigration has increased, the Chancellor has been humiliated in his Budget, the Doctors are out on strike and the Tories key education policy appears to be disarray, seems the wrong time to be crowing.

[ToraToraTora]

"the Labour Party will always be around, just as it was in May 1997, when it won the Election and returned to power with a parliamentary landslide, winning the biggest majority held by any government since 1935, something our resident right-wingers seem to conveniently forget. " - Ah mikey, go on have a good reminisce!

[ToraToraTora]

We are told though mikey that was not actually Labour, that was Noo Labour, ie the the Tories MK2!

[mikey4444]

TTT...but what would our right-wingers, including you, have been saying in the run-up to May 1997 ?

I am not sure if AB was around back then, but if it had been.......

Would you still have been saying how marvelous Major and the Tory Party was, just before he lost with only 165 seats ?

[mikey4444]

TTT...But if we do have a Tory Party Mark Two, and I would have thought that the Mark One was bad enough, surely its UKIP ?

Did you vote Tory on May 1st 1997 ? ( you don't have to answer that question if you would rather not ! )

[Gromit]

Tommy Robinson doesn't have a party.