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Respect Coalition launched with it's first MP.

lenin | 26.01.2004 21:45 | Analysis

George Galloway is now the Respect MP for Glasgow Kelvin. Respect is the Unity Coalition to give electoral and mainstream expression to the overwhelming antiwar feeling in the country. It will articulate a broad, radical left agenda and seeks to include as many progressive forces as possible. I report from the meeting that began it all...

You're a Blairite, pissing yourself at the feebleness of the rubber-spines in the Labour back-benches, and how quickly they'll whore themselves to the Cabinet for a few crumby concessions. You're enjoying the facility with which The Guardian despatches these foolhardy radicals for standing in the way of progress. A warm feeling floods your gut as you realise that Tone will once again triumph, that dissent is always the losing side, and that the hammering steam-engine of progress will continue it's merciless trammel through all barriers. Just one thing stands in the way of a nice glass of Drambuie. The British public. The FUCKING BRITISH PUBLIC!! Lazy-minded, slackwitted, workshy, acne-scarred bastards the lot of them! And they actually give the vote to these people? Latest poll shows that 60% of the British people oppose tuition fees , Blair's new flagship policy. (Check that link, by the way, and note The Guardian's phrase "instinctively opposed" as if it couldn't be a rational choice). They damned-near fucked up the Iraq war and here they are yet again, with their 'I think they shoulds' and 'it ain't rights'. Luckily, noone in their right mind bothers to represent these arid twits...

Or would they?

Read my report of the spark that began the fire.

 http://leninology.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_leninology_archive.html#107506751622928373

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  1. National Executive Stitch Up — stitched up
  2. flippin eck! — ;-)
  3. Side Stepping — stitched up
  4. sectarian wankers — Ear of the Monkey
  5. greens/anarchists? — ??
  6. sectarian wankers? — wont be bullied
  7. You've totally missed my point — Ear of the Monkey
  8. Unity — rmc
  9. Same old Left argues with Left — Dom Kingsmill
  10. Agreed — lenin
  11. nye bevan — will
  12. who is the real enemy of the left? — adam sheehan
  13. Lefties Of Britain Unite! — Salman Shaheen
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