The *Future* of the Labour Party

The Guardian has a list of the *bright young things* of the Labour Party. Read it and smirk - it is a wonderful piece of spin, that almost makes you believe that these people really do want to bring debate and a fresh style of politics to the UK. Until you realise that:

1. These people are amongst the key writers for the abysmal LabourList, and as such are effectively the slack jawed followers of the ridiculous Derek Draper.


2. These people support the Labour Party - that ideologically redundant, politically mortally wounded party. They are the cheerleaders for a failed political movement, and are defending the very institution that has wreaked so much devastation across the UK in the decade and a bit that it has been in power. Are these people about change? Are they about a new kind of politics? Are they bollocks. They are all about the aggressive maintenance of the status quo.

I'm feeling a little less militant than when I wrote this post, but the message is still the same - to my mind, you are utterly discredited ideologically and politically if you actively support the Labour Party these days. Hell, the young jokers in the article remind me of John McCain in the last US Presidential Election - talking about change, talking about a new kind of politics, whilst acting as mouthpieces for a moribund, unpopular, divisive and utterly discredited party. It is telling in the article that no-one can quite bring themselves to endorse the record of this government - Lord knows, that would be a difficult thing to do, but they don't even try. They are all calling for some sort of change, from slightly different ideological positions within the same redundant school of political thought. They call for change, whilst undermining any such call by still operating under the banner of Labour.

If these people are the future of Labour, then Labour's future looks a lot like Labour's present. And maybe, just maybe, if this is the best they've got then we really are seeing the death of the Labour party.