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This paragraph in the Guardian's Politics Live blog just now gave me a great deal of pleasure "Corbyn’s net approval rating with Labour members has gone up over the last three weeks, from +3 to +14, despite Labour MPs passing a motion of no confidence in him. This may be the most remarkable finding in the survey, and* perhaps the “despite” in my previous sentence was inappropriate. It may well be the case that Corbyn’s approval ratings have gone up precisely because he is perceived at war with his MPs*. If so, this suggests that Labour’s attempt to find a leader acceptable to both members and its MPs could be doomed to failure." (my emphasis) So the penny has almost dropped. Decades of the members being ignored by the parliamentary party have borne strange fruit. The Politicians wanted to be "responsible". The members wanted them to be "responsive". That of course is Mair's dialectic at work. The truth is almost too terrible for the political caste to contemplate. They now face a membership which is enraged, I suspect, especially by Watson's dirty tricks that were played to deny new members a vote. This instant righting of Karma is a beautiful thing to contemplate from down here in Oz. Those MPs who have gone too far in the abuse of Corbyn and in their deliberate ignoring of their constituent parties now face revenge at the party conference in September. Only Corbyn's tendency to softness can save them. What an irony! comradely Gary _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
