Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

Blairites still fuck with the machine
The debacle over who leads the Labour Party, with its rebellious MPs
(mostly Blairites) looking for an ‘establishment’ Tony-look-alike leader
of dubious ‘electable’ quality, really exposes the whole parliamentary
democracy lark for the farce it is. Political parties say they want members
and supporters, but they don’t want active members, they really want
quiet, docile citizens who pay their fees and leave it to their MPs to bicker
and float about on a fat salary with their exquisitely inflated ‘expenses’
cushions that keeps their feet off the ground and stops their arses being
kicked to hell and back. Once elected, MPs then vote as they please.
Please consider the ‘electable’ aspect. The concern is that, for the Labour Party
to do anything for its supporters, it must win an election to run the country. We
know, and have known for years, that a Labour government elected with some
tantalising radical lefty chit-chat, but which then bit-by-bit becomes essentially
an ‘establishment’ manifesto when in office, is a disappointing anti-climax to
those who voted for them to do something of benefit for the working class ...
Once elected, a Labour goverment’s face to the public is barely distinguishable
from a Tory government ... and their weak feeble excuse that their hands are
tied by financial constraints is a criminal cop-out.
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Last year, along comes a stalwart labourite, long serving and true to his
socialist ideals, and all hell breaks loose ... he wins a mandate from
members to lead the Labour Party, but fellow Labour MPs refuse to accept
his leadership because he doesn’t look like George Clooney or act like
some sharp suit in the City.
MID-AUGUST 2016