I’m always moved by these words on the back of my Labour Party membership card – a new one arrived the other day.
The bit, highlighted in red above;
by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone
…moves me (even if, at the worst of times, it isn’t always true of the Party).
And the stuff about realising potential and;
a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many and not the few, and where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe
…is pretty good too.
I do, genuinely, wonder whether the Conservative Party has anything similarly inspiring…?
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I wonder if Blair ever bothered to read that? And the jury is still out on the current incumbent. If you wish to wrap yourself in a flag, then at least let it be inclusive. Green is a nice colour.
Ah yes, Blair – the only Labour leader to have won a general election in the last 46 years, and he won three. What a good idea it was to force him out and then rubbish his legacy.
Also the Prime Minister who took us into a illegal war the killed hundreds of if not thousands of people
Thanks Steve. Iraq was a big mistake. Despite knowing what happened there, Cameron and the US (urged on by the media, of course) destroyed Libya – I think regime change is illegal isn’t it; that’s what happened, but no one seems to care too much about that – public enquiry, anyone? Blair’s intervention in Kosovo may well have been illegal but saved a lot of innocent people, so no one cares about that. His intervention in Sierra Leone stopped the atrocities there – not sure if that was legal or not.
I appreciate that Blair is a hate figure on the Left, but since Labour ousted him as PM things haven’t exactly gone swimmingly. We are now out of the EU, the UK may be about to fragment and we have the most right wing ruthless government, perhaps since WWII.
Yes these are good words and well worth thing deeply about. I do hope that Keir Stammer can pull the Labour Party into a real fighting force to combat the totally misguided and fallacious Tory Party philosophy of “ letting people keep more of their money” it sounds very appealing and unfortunately it does appeal to a lot of voters. However thinking it through, it means that important public services are starved of money eg Natural England and the rich get richer and the poor become poorer. This because the rich keep a much bigger proportion of their money and the poor have to pay even more for their needs. That’s why the quotes to which you refer Mark are so meaningful.
A much fairer distribution of wealth and better public services are needed in this country something that will never be forthcoming under the Tories. However it can be done Sweden and New Zealand are good examples.
Of course the Conservatives have equally inspiring words:
‘For the few not the many’
Roderick – for the few of us, not the many of you?
‘by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone’
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Common endeavour?
Like this?
”Why do you want to just walk away and pass the title deeds of this great party over to someone like Jeremy Corbyn? I don’t want to, I resent it, and I work every single day in some small way to bring forward the end of his tenure in office.
“Something, however small it may be – an email, a phone call or a meeting I convene – every day I try to do something to save the Labour party from his leadership.”