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I was showing that the membership who would support candidates like Tarry and Byrne have left the party. Some of their own volition and some from being suspended, I suspect those suspended were on the left
I feel for Byrne has he seems a really good bloke, I hope he wins the nomination
Personally, I'd like a leader who enthuses me and does a good job.
If you had a choice of a leader who was absolutely incredible, said all the right things, pushed forward with an anti-neoliberal agenda and who promised to tax the rich and the corporations and the billionaires til they squeaked and promised to re-nationalise everything and set up a socialist utopia in the UK but never got into power
or.. someone that was a bit dull but measured, pragmatic and got into power to pull the centre back to the centre and start to make a real difference in peoples lives to being to pull things back to before the Tories last demolition job
Which would you want running the Labour Party?
For me, only people actually in power can actually affect anything.
I know you can argue that you get the first one in and once they are in power they can change the world, but is that realistic in the UK? Has there every been a truly socialist government in power except for the one after World War II that set up the NHS and other amazing things? Would it be possible in this day and age?
If we could have the first one and they could get into power and they could deliver all that then fair enough, but I doubt it's feasible. I've mentioned it before and I'll mention it again - try Democracy 3 (or 4) and try and run the UK as a truly socialist government. It's a real eye-opener and actually shows you all the things you have to consider and how connected they all are. Certainly made me think about a lot of things in a different way:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/245470/Democracy_3/