The tumbleweed that was the old left has long since passed (or transitioned). No Barbara Castle’s or Tony Benn’s in the Commons anymore. The MP’s from the old left, now sit in the House of Lords. Ask an ex-miner how many genders there are in existence today, and they will give you the thousand yard stare, and yet ‘our party’ held these matters as some of the most important issues of our time recently. The right wingers in the Labour party were now arguing over matters which meant little to the traditional Labour voter. The resulting mess saw the grass roots of the party voting for the unthinkable. Where now are ‘my people’ today? The Liberals and the Greens are now sitting somewhere alongside Labour, and there is now a void where there used to be Tony Benn, Barbara Castle, Michael Foot, Tariq Ali, Chris Mullin, Dennis Skinner etc. So we were looking at the Tories becoming very much a Centrist party, and the Labour party, whilst might be calling itself working class and ‘socialist’, in reality, saw itself transforming into a very different animal. Those at the top of the working man’s party, were wealthier than their sworn enemies leaders. Those who, supposedly, represented the working class, within the big cities, had decided to move house to a plot of land well to the right of the part we had just voted for.
In a way, I felt I had been deceived by the party ‘who would do the right thing at all times for the working man’. What had become apparent was that the powers that be, who wished we would remain, seemed to reside within London’s postcode zone. Open for financial abuse all told and so it was. Even Labours finest, Aneurin Bevan, expressed his doubts about that European institution. Back then, us ‘anti-marketeers’ were worried about democracy and the sizes of holes in fishing nets! Many Labour MP’s felt as I did. I voted leave when I was 19, in 1975, and my mindset hadn’t changed. In 2016, no-one was more surprised than I was to see a situation where the bulk of the country decided to leave the European Union.
What had happened, politically, had been seen on the horizon since 2016.
Hang on, he was a bloke, who voted to Remain in Europe (so against public consensus), and I couldn’t quite see him in his mining hat, hacking away at a coal face for 12 hours a day, giving him street cred. In early April, the best they actually came up with was a white bloke. Their choice was easy.choose a woman.preferably a Black woman.and we should be amazed with whatever they would come up with.
#Usoe songbook full#
Mid March and the new Chancellor was informing us of his exciting (depending on your disposition) post election plans, United were beating City in front of a full crowd, and Labour were only a few weeks away from choosing their new leader. Quote straight out of the Kevin Keegan book of prophecies ‘I do not make predictions.I never have done, and I never will’! The Covid-19 year since we agreed to be ‘guided by government’ last March has thrown up some interesting changes in the day to day routine.īack in January last year, the World Health Organisation sent out a tweet (or should I say ’said’), informing the World that Covid-19 was ‘not a virus transmittable from human to human’. (Roman philosopher, lawyer & political theorist) For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?' 'To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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