>A caucus of ‘eleven new left Labour MPs and an MSP’ from the Socialist Campaign Group (SCG) of left-wing Labour MPs have agreed to set up a separate group with its own funding, priorities – and at least one staff member.
>An ‘MPs Strategic Coordination Proposal’ document, obtained by Skwawkbox, says that the group’s budget to March of this year will be almost £32,000, with a first year of operations costing £133,000. Among its planned funding streams are a levy of £1,000 per MP to be taken from their training budgets and **contributions from economically high net worth donors that the group hopes to persuade to part with cash to achieve an ‘alliance between GND [green new deal] and new/progressive economics’.**
>But the strategy document also makes clear that the new group, which sees itself as modelled on ‘The Squad’ of Democrat lawmakers in the US, sees itself trying to pressure Keir Starmer from off and on his front bench, **in other words working alongside Starmer and trying to steer him, rather than resist or remove him, listing among its ‘tactical approaches’:**
This is rich.
Well, it’s about time some on the left started seeing sense. Even if Starmer is really the second coming of Tony Blair, better to back him than to keep the Tories in power, eh?
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As the Tories look around for another foot to shoot as their own are bloody stumps, Labour decides it needs even more factional infighting.
Shambolic.
The question is, who can fuck up least before the next election?
It hardly went well for Change UK. The left do need to find what they stand for, however it might just be that standing against Johnson, corruption and increasing inequality will do for now. We have the rest of civilisation to fight about the smaller issues but it is more important to reverse the current economic inequalities we are facing now, before they become much harder to reverse.
They just need a party who appeals to traditional labour members. Labour after blair lost its identity and now its just a cluster fck of internal agendas
I hate left wing seperatists when it comes to UK politics. They care more about the reaching for their impossible ideal state, ignoring compromise, while the real state gets raped in front of their faces by the opposition who DO compromise. The current voting system is crying out for a single ‘anti tory’ party, though we’ll never see it.
These comments have no relationship whatsoever to what’s actually happening. Does nobody even bother to read the articles?
Labour should have nothing to do with socialists anyway, maybe people would vote for them instead of the tories
Great, getting rid of die hard socialists actually makes labour electable – see New Labour
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>A caucus of ‘eleven new left Labour MPs and an MSP’ from the Socialist Campaign Group (SCG) of left-wing Labour MPs have agreed to set up a separate group with its own funding, priorities – and at least one staff member.
>An ‘MPs Strategic Coordination Proposal’ document, obtained by Skwawkbox, says that the group’s budget to March of this year will be almost £32,000, with a first year of operations costing £133,000. Among its planned funding streams are a levy of £1,000 per MP to be taken from their training budgets and **contributions from economically high net worth donors that the group hopes to persuade to part with cash to achieve an ‘alliance between GND [green new deal] and new/progressive economics’.**
>But the strategy document also makes clear that the new group, which sees itself as modelled on ‘The Squad’ of Democrat lawmakers in the US, sees itself trying to pressure Keir Starmer from off and on his front bench, **in other words working alongside Starmer and trying to steer him, rather than resist or remove him, listing among its ‘tactical approaches’:**
This is rich.
Well, it’s about time some on the left started seeing sense. Even if Starmer is really the second coming of Tony Blair, better to back him than to keep the Tories in power, eh?
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As the Tories look around for another foot to shoot as their own are bloody stumps, Labour decides it needs even more factional infighting.
Shambolic.
The question is, who can fuck up least before the next election?
It hardly went well for Change UK. The left do need to find what they stand for, however it might just be that standing against Johnson, corruption and increasing inequality will do for now. We have the rest of civilisation to fight about the smaller issues but it is more important to reverse the current economic inequalities we are facing now, before they become much harder to reverse.
They just need a party who appeals to traditional labour members. Labour after blair lost its identity and now its just a cluster fck of internal agendas
I hate left wing seperatists when it comes to UK politics. They care more about the reaching for their impossible ideal state, ignoring compromise, while the real state gets raped in front of their faces by the opposition who DO compromise. The current voting system is crying out for a single ‘anti tory’ party, though we’ll never see it.
These comments have no relationship whatsoever to what’s actually happening. Does nobody even bother to read the articles?
Labour should have nothing to do with socialists anyway, maybe people would vote for them instead of the tories
Great, getting rid of die hard socialists actually makes labour electable – see New Labour