Political Notes

[poliphilo]

1.The political establishment- including most of the media and much of the Blairite high command of the Labour Party- detests Jeremy Corbyn- because he has principles and a moral compass- and has been trying its damnedest to persuade us that the electorate feels the same way. It now has a stonking great Labour victory in Oldham West (my old constituency) to explain away.

2. In the modern political lexicon "moderate" has come to mean a person who votes for war- and writing to your MP to suggest they vote against war has become "harrassment".

3. Some MPs who were in favour of war have been labelled "baby murderers". Isn't that terrible! So much worse (in the view of the above mentioned political establishment) than voting for a policy that will inevitably result in babies being murdered.

Comments

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

3. It's not 'worse' - they're both bad; I've no doubt that some MP's genuinely think we're going to war for the right reasons, even if it is the wrong decision... Painting everybody who disagrees as immoral is always unhelpful, no matter which side engages in it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'm a bit hard line on this one. I think anyone who has examined the evidence and still thinks bombing Syria is a good idea is either amoral (rather than immoral) or simply stupid.

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

Sure, but there's still a huge difference between being stupid - which I'll allow - and wilfully murderous.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.