The Post- Political comment polemics
Each edition of The Post (TP) has a political commentary by SWF. The first time I was reading TP, I thought the commentary will be related to the political situation in our town or region.
It was only after I had read several issues of TP that I understood that since all town councillors in our town are from the Labour Party, the author of the commentary will not be writing about our own ‘backyard’. The commentary is on national issues and is extremely subjective – written from the point of view of a local Labour Party activist. This is the reason those texts are full of propaganda, manipulation and concealment.
Quote: I grew even more depressed during the early hours of Friday the 13th of December 2019
I watched the whole election night coverage and my feelings were poles apart from those presented by SWF. The electorate clearly rejected ‘caviar-rich’ socialism and radical economic proposals. People refused to believe that someone who refers to Hezbollah terrorists as friends, lays flowers on terrorist graves and accepts £20 000 appearance fee from Iran’s national TV would be a good Prime Minister.
EVERYONE (including me) was fed up of Brexit, and Corbyn was promising another referendum and further re-opening of old wounds. Johnson did the opposite – he wanted a quick solution to this problem and in line with the earlier decision of the people. When the first „exit poll” was announced I did not feel more depressed – like the majority of the country, I breathed a sigh of relief…
Quote: Everyone has a view on why Labour did badly: No clear decision on Europe; the Leader; and constant infighting amongst Party hierarchy.
Oh SFW! You forgot to mention a few things: declaration that tenants would be able to force-buy the property they rented from the landlords at prices ‘prescribed by the government’ (much lower than market price); declaration of plans of yet another Brexit referendum; lies about the sale of NHS; the Labour leader referring to people who want to destroy this country and drown it in blood as friends; nationalisation; aggression and violence used by Momentum; plans to increase taxes paid by self-employed; taking by force from companies employing more than 250 people 10% of their profits and giving this money to people who never invested a penny in the company.
SFW also forgot about the most crucial point – hatred towards minorities, mainly the Jewish community. Oh SWF! You forgot about the structural anti-Semitism in the Labour Party! Why?! Why did you not mention it at all? Are you ashamed or just like leaders of the Labour Party are trying to pretend that there is no such problem? Or maybe you are one of them who align themselves with those views?
Quote: Labour Party survives because it serves the overall interests of the majority in our society.
Perhaps that used to be true in the past. Today these are just empty words – currently Labour serves only liberal elites in large cities. Have a look at the election map – a sea of blue with a few scarce islands of red. The whole country rejected Labour and Conservatives slowly but surely win support in places where not more than a decade ago this would have been unthinkable. You should replace the word ‘majority’ with ‘minority’. Just look at this chart. Where do you see the majority here ???
Quote: For a start, we have to listen to the will of the people and convince them that we can deliver what we promise and only promise what we can deliver.
What a beautiful sentence! How true! How unrealistic considering the current state of the Labour Party! SFW- take a look at the people in the Labour leadership race.
The first one is an elitist lawyer deprived of any charisma, but with a ‘Sir’ in front of his name. I can already picture meetings with workers shouting over each other ‘Sir! Sir! Sir! Lead us!’
The second one is a radical, a socialist, an alumnus of Corbyn, who still believes that his party leadership deserves a ’10 out of 10’ evaluation.
The third one is a woman who wants to REMOVE from the party anyone who dares to claim that in order to be a woman you need to be born one and cutting your penis off does not make you one.
I come from working class. I am a blue-collar worker. NOBODY in the current Labour elite says anything that would convince me to vote for them. Quite the opposite!!!
Quote: It (Party) also needs to remember that two thirds of the constituencies voted to leave.
Brexit has already been decided upon– dividing voters into Brexiters and Remainers is outdated. Declarations of Jess Phillips that Labour should become a party for REJOINers is pure madness. There is no going back on Brexit. If Labour leaders want to think about winning power, they need to forget about Brexit, go back to the grassroots and start re-building their support from there.
The last few paragraphs of the article are devoted to Dennis Skinner- former veteran MP representing our district. My comment is this: Dennis liked to be seen as a defender of the working class. The question is: Where was he when a certain company in our town introduced ‘Victorian workhouse conditions’? Where was he when employees of this company were working for less than the minimum wage? Where was he when a pregnant female worker gave birth to her baby on a warehouse toilet floor? Where was he in 1998 when the act on ‘zero hours contracts’ was introduced? He had a decade under Blair to abolish it…
I have been living in Shirebrook since 2013 and not once have I had the opportunity to meet with Dennis. It is quite interesting because Mark Fletcher has been an MP for less than 3 months and I already had the pleasure of meeting him. I would receive Dennis’ flyers only before elections – they were normally full of empty phrases and promises, memories of glorious past. For me personally, Dennis was yet another socialist detached from the reality, for whom Westminster was more important than people in his own district.
Dennis was almost a cult figure and although he claimed he was in favour of Brexit, in the Houses of Parliament he voted against. Both he and his blind followers failed to notice that voters had had enough lies and that he was too weak to face another election. This is why, for the first time, Labour lost its seat in Bolsover.
Sylwester Zwierzynski
