I published this on Medium earlier today.
https://twitter.com/Paul0Evans1/status/750831965289508864
Author Archives: Paul Evans
Running an unleaded car on diesel
Very grim times for The Labour Party. Is this the endgame?
https://twitter.com/Paul0Evans1/status/749361205521809408
Two big red buttons
I’m re-posting a portion of an older, longer post here because it is important that we all understand how any attempt to remove Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party will play out.
It isn’t very comfortable reading, I’m afraid. Sorry.
I’m anti-Brexit but I’m more frightened of living in a country that uses referendums
Here’s my latest, over on Medium.
https://twitter.com/Paul0Evans1/status/744104032780845056
I’m anti-Brexit but I’m more frightened of living in a country that uses referendums
What an awful week this is turning out to be. For perhaps the first time in my life, I’m dreading news bulletins as much as I’ve always dreaded opinion-TV.
Where the BBC’s Question Time has always caused me to snatch up the remote control, now ordinary reportage has the same effect, coloured by this wretched polarising referendum and a wider revolt of the political fanatics from all over Europe and in the US against a more measured and deliberative democracy.
The question that appears to need settling is this: which of the following will lead to a certain catastrophe?
British democracy would be weaker outside the EU
The fact that we are using a referendum to decide this in the first place tells you all you need to know about how important ‘democracy’ is to the people who are asking us to decide the UK’s future in Europe.
I’ve written a piece for Left Foot Forward saying more-or-less this in more detail. You can read it here
The bitterness that will linger for Labour
I’ve written a four-part short essay with a personal view on why Labour got itself into its current difficulties, how it could have avoided it, and why this is a big issue either way (because this is very bad time to be complacent about democracy). They essay finishes with a look at what the opportunity is for Labour along with a contrast between the success of Bernie Sanders and the backward-steps of Corbynism
https://twitter.com/Paul0Evans1/status/717469713056600064
https://twitter.com/Paul0Evans1/status/717470515208851456
https://twitter.com/Paul0Evans1/status/717471537218134016
https://twitter.com/Paul0Evans1/status/717472232495312896
Comments welcome, as always.
A complete list of things that are wrong with democracy
I’ve created a list over on Medium, and I’d welcome your comments.
Post-Leninism – two thought experiments
Labour, Syria and the problem with mandates…
I posted this over on Slugger O’Toole earlier.
Here’s a pull-quote:
When some of us, back in August, said “putting Corbyn in charge of the Labour Party is like filling an ‘unleaded’ car with diesel”, this is what we meant. It actually won’t work. We weren’t trying to talk those voters out of something sensible. We were saying “this is bound to end in tears.”