Welcome to Labour, comrade Newman
Posted on Wednesday 8 September, 2010
Filed Under Labour Left, The left
HE’S back, and this time no more Mr Nice Guy. From the contributors’ page at Labour left group blog Left Futures:
Andy Newman is the primary contributor to Socialist Unity, probably the leading website to the Left of Labour. He recently rejoined the Labour Party, he is on the National Steering Committee of the Stop the War Coalition, and the Southern Regional Council of the GMB.
Blimey. I haven’t seen this announced anywhere else, least of all on the SU website. But I presume the statement is authoritative. And so soon after Phil BC of A Very Public Sociologist fame threw in the towel with the Socialist Party and signed up to wussy social democratic reformism, too.
Although Andy is too modest to mention it in the potted biog, he is a former member of the Socialist Workers’ Party, a parliamentary candidate who secured 205 votes for Socialist Unity against Labour in Swindon North in 2005, and until recently a high profile member of George Galloway’s ill-fated Respect grouping.
Until a few months ago, he argued that the latter organisation stood a good chance of securing three MPs and holding the balance of power in a hung parliament, a perspective that was not borne out in the general election.
But hey, I’m the last one to talk. Welcome to the party, comrade.
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“What credibility will you have with menmbers of the public if, on the one hand, you’re supposedly campaigning against cuts and on the other you’re in a Party whose representatives are implementing them locally?”
About the same credibility that the Militant Tendency had in the 1980s I guess, when it was about ten times larger than the current Socialist Party is.
boilermaker. You are absolutely right boilermaker. I note from Newsnight last night the obscene salaries being paid by the taxpayer to the bosses and their pals(and lovers)in the Quangos and councils are now being looked at. The front line services that were easy pickings for them to salvage their positions is untenable.
“The PLP has now become so unrepresentitive of the party as whole that a few Andy Newman’s may not hurt.”
He hasn’t been cloned has he? One is too many .
I can’t possibly stay in a party with the likes of these people. It’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back or something. Blair, Brown, Reid, Straw, the lot…but in a party with Andy Newman? No way, Jose. I’ve sent my party card back tonight. It’s about political hygiene, surely.