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While Corbyn has pulled up Labour Party support in Britain, down under in NZ the LP just can't catch a break. After three election losses in a row they look set to lose another general election next year to the National Party. Interestingly, the traditional Tory party here stands to the left of Labour on a number of key issues - they're far less racist towards Chinese migrants, they favour keeping the existing retirement age (65), they've raised social benefits, which none of the last three (!!!) Labour governments have done. They also recently voted, with most other MPs, to abolish zero-hours contracts. In many of the traditional Labour seats, National now has more party votes than Labour, and some of these seats have even fallen to National in recent years. In 2014, more blue-collar workers voted National than Labour. See: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/latest-opinion-poll-labour-just-cant-catch-a-break/ Also see the piece on how Labour's new general-secretary is indicative of who runs Labour these days (the managerial class): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/new-labour-party-general-secretary-indicative-of-partys-managerial-capitalism/ Yet, various well-meaning liberals still make up rosy nonsense about Labour: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/why-do-otherwise-sane-well-meaning-people-choose-to-delude-themselves-about-the-labour-party-and-make-up-rosy-nonsense-about-its-past/ Phil _________________________________________________________ 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
