By: Rupert Ferguson

Rupert Ferguson — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:02:24 +0000

We hear a great deal from professional Labour politicians about how they understand the needs of Working Class Communities come election time, or when they are in opposition. Once elected we see a very different side of the coin however. It is fact that the last Labour government created the forerunner of this government’s hated ‘Workfare’ initiative through the implementation of its so called ‘New Deal’ programme, which began the cross the board move to what has effectively become and is generally referred to as ‘Corporate Welfare’. It is also fact that Gordon Brown’s legal aid reforms did just as much to deny justice to the masses as his Tory counterparts have done in their turn. Similarly, Tony Blair’s ‘restructuring’ of what was to become ‘New Labour’, both before and after the 1997 General Election, created an environment in which workers rights and other key issues which had originally been part of his Party’s well established political ideology were dumped in favour of an all new Neo-Liberal approach. This is what has created the need for a New Party of the Left. The only question is, will whatever new force for Left Wing change that emerges out of the current Nu-Lab Neo-Lib malaise end up being infiltrated and subverted like the old Labour Party almost certainly was? The answers are out there! Truly out there!

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By: Rupert Ferguson