Sorry , ALB but i can’t go
Sorry , ALB but i can’t go along with your schadenfreude tendencies here, since the SPGB got a miserable 143 votes whereas the TUSC achieved a glorious average of 371 at the general election so quite obviously they are 3 times more in contact with the workers than we are (in this years local elections it was 153 average per TUSC candidate, our last local election result was again a feeble 113 votes, dwarfed by the droves that vote for the TUSC ). Understandably, the fact that the SPGB sloganising is the ever unpopular “socialism and only socialism” explains why SPEW/TUSC’s host of demagogue demands had the electorate salivating at the polls, rushing to place their X in support. Well… okay… admittedly the odd few score more on average than the SPGB got but we do tell voters not to vote for us if they don’t agree with our object of socialism. See the SPEW election manifesto here btw http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/4224 , promising everything but free beer (only the SPGB promises to deliver that with with our demand for free access !!)