J McDonnell's EDM "attack poverty, not the poor."
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poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
I'm surprised McDonnel hasn't stood for Mayor of London as an independant left candidate.
Udo Erasmus
Well-Known Member
It would be an interesting prospect, wasn't he deputyleader of the GLC and fell out with Livingstone over his belief that they should adopt more militant tactics to fight off the Tory offensive on local government?
But for McDonnell to stand as an independent candidate would automatically mean expulsion from the Labour Party
taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
Im an activist in a wide number of fields. The last big stuff I did for the less well off was to try and stop council housing sell off in my area. The Local Labour Party (who fancy themselves as "left wing") took very against me for that and tried to make my life difficult. Meanwhile, JM is an activist for a corrupt reactionary party that treats the poor like shit while taking their votes for granted.
As for giving the issues a wider profile, we never see him outside the pages of The Morning Star and he is almost totally ignored by his own party. That tells you all you need to know. I havent written to my local Labour MP about this EDM because I know him to be 2 faced and he is less allowed to think for himself than he used to be. I might write to a fairly local Libdem who is a good egg.
taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
And thereby his cushy well paid job and the impression that he has some power.
It would be good if the SNP would run candidates all over England as well as Scotland.
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