Keir Starmer’s Labour: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here
Salutations . Let’s save the pleasantries and cut to the chase, although don’t be too shocked if I plug my chat with the legendary Noam Chomsky several times along the way. I mean, wouldn’t you? The Labour Party is no longer a democratic socialist party. The centre-right might like to call themselves “social democrats”, because they still believe they are the centre-left, but in reality, the dial has moved so far to the right they now find themselves firmly in Tory territory, competing for the flag vote. Looking back, the proposals put forward by Jeremy Corbyn were relatively mainstream. Now, I know a number of you Red Tory-enablers will read that last sentence, foaming at the mouth, screaming some old twaddle about the “hard-left”, as is your right to do so. But you don’t have to take my word for it, just ask Noam Chomsky - because he told me Corbyn’s proposals were “relatively mainstream” - that’s Professor Emeritus Chomsky, the father of modern linguistics. You can come at m