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Forgot to mention that yesterday’s Times had an editorial lambasting the LibDems’ promises as unrealistic. In other words, they seem to be saying continue to vote Tory in blue wall constituencies but Labour elsewhere.
Of course LibDens’ promises are unrealistic but so are those of all the parties since they are based on the mistaken premise that the government can control the way the capitalist economy works.
It is true that the less likely they are to get into office the more unrealistic their promises. Thus the Libdems are more unrealistic than Labour or the Tories, the Greens are more unrealistic than the LibDens, and the likes of Galloway and TUSC more unrealistic than the Greens.
Out driving yesterday passing through Ewell just outside London I saw a ReformUK placard by the roadside saying “Toot” if you support us. Nobody did, not even white vans.
Incidentally, their candidate in Epsom & Ewell is called Mayuran Senthilnathan. Which can’t be to the liking of some of their natural supporters.
A bit short notice but:
Our candidate Folkestone and Hythe, Andy Thomas, will appear at General Election Hustings tonight, Monday 1st July, in Hythe at St Leonard’s church from 7.30 to 9pm.
The event is being live streamed
The independent conspiracy-monger candidate in Battersea (Jake Thomas) calls on people to “resist the rise in corporate capitalism/socialism”. By “socialism” he v means of course state capitalism and, like the Greens, he doesn’t see anything wrong with capitalism as such, just wants to go back to pre-corporate capitalism.
On the front page of his leaflet he prints “Clowns on the left, jokers on the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you”. Perhaps one of the music-lovers here can dig out the original song as a forgotten classic.
No, not too late. Email your postal address to socialist party head office : spgb [at] worldsocialism.org and say how many leaflets you want.
Here is the Electoral Commission’s advice/code of conduct on campaigning outside polling places:
Here’s what the conspiracy-mongers of The Light are saying about the election. They are backing anti-Israel independents such an Andrew Feinstein as well
as their own. A comrade from Stroud reports that that their stall there has a placard praising Jeremy Corbyn (yes Jeremy, not his nutty brother Piers). They are also supporting a candidate there who is linked to this site:https://breakpartypolitics.co.uk/
The front page article, with a cartoon based on one of Galloway’s favourite quips, is by the former LibDem MP Lembit Opik.
Anyway, here it is:
https://thelightpaper.co.uk/assets/pdf/The-Light-46-Jun-24-Web-Final.pdf
Your personal theory does not hold water. For a start, the transition from Protestantism to Deism as the last stop before atheism did take place in America. The most well-known deists are in fact some of the founding fathers of the American Republic such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin. To which can be added Thomas Paine.
A comrade on that continent wants to draw attention to this alternative theory which seems to have the advantage of being based on actual research:
The comrade also mentions this:
It seems that yet again things are not as bad as you like to think.
We have managed to track down the missing write-in vote for socialism. It is here:
The BBC have now corrected the link from our name. See here:
In this week’s edition of the Weekly Worker Robin Cox accedes to ZJW’s request above.
There is also a letter from our philosophical friend from Liverpool which is not bad.
Meanwhile the others are still disputing on what is a minimum programme. We have certainly put the cat amongst the pidgeons there, an unintended bonus of our decision to contest the GLA elections.
Definitely not him. He went on to join the Labour Party and even, I think, became a Labour councillor.
The Revolutionary Communist Group were outside Brixton Tube station this morning (and so got one of our leaflets) handing out a leaflet headed “A vote for Labour is a vote for genocide!” which says:
“The mantra “kick out the Tories” is a dog whistle for a Labour vote, since the Tories can only be ‘kicked out’ of government by a Labour general election victory. It is a call to replace one virulently racist, imperialist, anti-working class government by another. But it enables left organisations like the SWP, Socialist Party, Socialist Alternative, Revolutionary Communist Party to name but four, to maintain their support for Labour while pretending to oppose it. Meanwhile, the many organisations created by disillusioned Labour supporters – Transform Politics, No Ceasefire – No Vote, Collective, TUSC, Muslim Vote, We Deserve Better, Reliance Party, the Rise Movement, etc etc – are endorsing left Labour candidates like Zarah Sultana, even when such people brazenly place their parliamentary careers before any political principles. They are standing “independent” candidates ostensibly to challenge Labour’s support for the Zionist onslaught – but they have no intention of threatening a Labour victory and are targeting constituencies with a solid Labour majority and a right-wing Labour candidate.”
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“A vote for Corbyn is a vote for nostalgia and nothing more, a vote for Galloway is a vote for a sexist, homophobic and transphobic charlatan, a vote for Feinstein is a vote for personal ambition. Such votes do not take the movement forward one iota. Nor does a vote for the many other opportunists.”
Their conclusion “Don’t Vote, Organise!” (in their vanguard party of course)
A sympathiser took a photo of their postal vote ballot paper with “World Socialism” written across it and posted it on Twitter. It is now marked as “unavailable”. Maybe because a Twitter employee thought that photoing your ballot paper is illegal. In fact taking a photo of your own postal ballot paper is not illegal, at least not in Britain. Postal voters here are perfectly entitled to show how they voted.
