According to Len McCluskey "You should never ever try to appease the right wing media. To do so demeans you and our party".
The chutzpah of the left's collective amnesia is astonishing.
Does Len McCluskey not recall Tony Blair's co-opting of the Murdoch press?
Or Gordon Brown's courting of Paul Dacre and the Daily Mail?
This was when Unite was (and is) the Labour Party's chief source of finance.
Or perhaps Len McCluskey is being astonishingly candid with this statement. Perhaps he is warning us from bitter experience that the Labour Party has abased itself in the past and should not do so in the future. This would at least be honest of him.
For the Labour Party DID abase itself under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. It abandoned every pretence of honesty and decency and legality to get itself into power and keep itself in power. And then once in power dithered with indecision, not knowing what it wanted to do.
The chutzpah of the left's collective amnesia is astonishing.
Does Len McCluskey not recall Tony Blair's co-opting of the Murdoch press?
Or Gordon Brown's courting of Paul Dacre and the Daily Mail?
This was when Unite was (and is) the Labour Party's chief source of finance.
Or perhaps Len McCluskey is being astonishingly candid with this statement. Perhaps he is warning us from bitter experience that the Labour Party has abased itself in the past and should not do so in the future. This would at least be honest of him.
For the Labour Party DID abase itself under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. It abandoned every pretence of honesty and decency and legality to get itself into power and keep itself in power. And then once in power dithered with indecision, not knowing what it wanted to do.
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