For those who believe The Labour Party has lost its way, a new resource site has been created by Adrian McMenamin, which it is hoped, will provide Leftish bloggers with the sort of support which is common place among liberal bloggers in the US.
Check out transpero.net
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Actually, that is not whet I believe at all. It’s almost the very opposite. Read what I wrote again! I am saying that the Labour Party has an extremely progressive record and that not enough people on the left recognise that.
I also say that Labour needs to adapt to an environment where it is in power for a substantial period of time as opposed to an insurgency that wins power for a few years every two decades or so.
However, I am interested in working to develop these resources in an open way that helps build a strong pro-Labour community online.
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Adrian,
So what’s the score?
In reference to you Pro-Blair position.
I’m more of a Blairite in that I believe public services are in desperate need of reform. But the PM certainly doesn’t get a free pass with the attacks on civil liberties and the wildly irresponsible foreign policy; and as security and foreign policy are the central pillars of Blair’s third term he had to get an F.
To Liberal Internationalists such as myself, Blair’s foreign policy mistakes are unforgivable. Indeed last year I left the Labour Party. He has also married our foreign affairs to the whims of one of the most rightwing American administrations in history, which have greatly increased the threat of homegrown terrorism and the possibility of a complete breakdown in ethnic integration. This reality also weakens the government and therefore cripples its capacity to drive through reform, meaning that since 2004, we have seen very little in the way of progressive reform.
While Blair is at the helm, Labour cannot move forward. Them’s the facts.
I read this in the Guardian which may be of interest to you:
read here
A “Liberal Internationalist” now are we, Tyger
I have to be something!
I think I have always been so. Don’t you? Still a social libertarian though
We are arguing about two different things here - I have my views about the political direction of the Labour Party - I don’t regret getting rid of a fascist regime in Iraq, I do believe in the important of serious and fundamental public service reform and I think Tony Blair should remain leader of the Labour Party.
I also think that Labour needs to adapt its organisation and politics to being in power for the long term - which means having greater internal debate in the party and reaching out to broader constituenices and engaging with a society where individualism and individual choice are the desire of the many, not the few. I want to work with all those interested in building that pro-Labour community online and so transpero.net is not an alternative political platform or faction but just a place where we can work on building that community. I have published the reasons why I think that was needed and they aren’t the ones given at the top of the page. But if they are your reasons then fair enough…
Adrian, I think you are deluding yourself - and by so doing also making yourself a stooge for forces beyond your control (mostly across the pond)…