It was only a matter of time, I suppose, before the slumbering beast of the real British left emerged from its stupor and began to tramp around the country laying waste to all before it. And by the word ‘left’ I do not refer to the new, touchy-feely, big tent left but the old, proper, card-carrying, high octane, full-fat, extra-strength bona fide followers of Lenin.
They’ve been pricked and cut too much to stay dormant; Blair in bed with Big Business, Blair in bed with ‘right-wing’ European politicians and (probably the deepest cut of all) Blair in bed with George W. Bush!!.
They’ve had enough. They’re mad as hell and they just won’t take it anymore. So they have organised a grand gathering of their clan today in London to formally announce that Blair and ‘New’ Labour is a dragon to be slain.
The ‘old’ left has never gone away, of course. Nor have they abandoned their dream of turning Britain into North Korea. But they have been very quiet for the last few years because the Blairites captured the high ground of the Labour Party and made it electable again by being business-friendly (after a fashion). Out of fear of a return to Tory government, they kept still their waspish tongues.
But, either they no longer fear a Conservative revival or they are so desperate they no longer care. Either way this legion of marxist trade union leaders and Labour party activists want a fight. Methinks they are going to get one.
