The Problem With Labour
The opposition party should be there to hold the Government to account. They should provide policy and provide credible challenge at every opportunity; they need to scrutinize the country’s gongs on at every step. Adequate opposition is the basis of a good democracy. Without it, without a good, solid challenge to whoever is in charge you may as well not exist.
The Labour Party have lost their way, when they were originally founded there was a real need for everything they stood for: The rights of the Working Class. Largely, what their original intent was had come to fruition and now they seem to lack any real cause. We no longer send children down coal mines, nor do we force them into workshops so where does that leave Labour? Well, they seem to be very split. The party is awash with the “woke” and seems to not understand that a huge amount of the population finds it really annoying. The Working Class feel as though they are hated, the scorn poured on them — the traditional Labour vote — by this “woke” extreme has damaged Labour almost beyond repair. But, the power the “woke” hold within the party, the Corbynistas, continues regardless. It’s why the likes of Diane Abbott and Richard Burgon are allowed to publicly embarrass themselves repeatedly. Watching Diane Abbott Tweeting support for the IRA on Thursday (Polling day, now deleted I might add) should have shocked me. But it’s what we have come to expect! The Working Class, as much as she may despise them, support our forces.
We also have a “Blue Labour” faction. This “Blue Labour” was arguably inclusive of the traditional Labour vote. But, they seem to have taken a completely different stance and now only represent a Middle Class Metropolitan elite. The pro-EU Federalists do not align with the Far-Left Momentum and in my opinion, they need to war it out and go their separate ways.
The two ideologies in the party do not align, in fact I would suggest the only thing they agree on is their hatred of the Working Class.
If Labour are going to gain any vote back they need radical change, split and do their separate things. A real “Blue Labour” would undoubtedly pick up a lot of the traditional vote but they do need to realise where it comes from.
The Working Class like to be patriotic. They see the people continually berating England or the UK as odd balls. No-one laughs harder at themselves than us Brits. Billy Connolly made a successful career out of mocking our idiosyncrasies, we all laughed along with him and it made us feel warm and comfortable in our own skins. “Woke” Labour seem obsessed with guilt. Too eager to jump on woke bandwagons, only to find they have backed an extreme cause. Race and extreme environmentalism, guilt is their oxygen. People don’t want to go through life feeling guilty, miserable and bitter and they are sick of being told they and their country are an embarrassment.
If Labour want to repair themselves they need to address these very things because at the moment they are too small to be an opposition but too large to completely fold. They won’t stand still, if they don’t grow they will shrink. But they need to stop hating on the very people they should be standing for.
I hope for a credible opposition party soon, when there is no challenge it can cause serious problems itself.
