The Left has eaten itself for the past few weeks. The anger on Social Media regarding the decision making of Labor, will have dire consequences. One consequence is the Liberals in Government for six, nine or twelve more years, or Armageddon; whichever comes sooner. For the Left to stop eating themselves alive; the Left have to make a choice about what type of opposition they support and Labor has to listen.
This Is It for the Next Three Years
For the next three years the construction of the lower house is that The Coalition holds power and the Opposition Labor Party does not have the numbers to prevent any Bill passing in the lower house.
For Bills to pass in the Senate the Liberals can pass Bills by securing the support of three of the six right wing individuals from the Cross bench.
In the Senate the Liberals hold power, with Labor and Greens parties on the left and a six person cross bench. the Six person Cross Bench are all Right Wing parties or Individuals. With one posing as a Centre party. The Cross Bench all hold right wing ideologies. These ideologies span from Christian Conservatism, Nationalism and Centrism.
Political Risks for The Left
The risk for the Left, with the Right wing Cross Bench holding balance of power, is they hold the power to trade anything they want in exchange for their support to the Government. The Right Wing Cross Bench ONLY hold no power if Labor or the Greens side with the Government.
Have a think about this. Go Wild! Have a good hard think about what trade offs the Cross Bench will make. Especially with Christian Conservatism and Nationalism, It could be anything from cuts to social security, defence spending, racist legislation, abhorrent Asylum Seeker (yes even worse) legislation, criminalisation of abortion – anything.
The Left has two choices.
We must decide right now; which type of opposition we prefer, by framing the long term consequences in the context of the left’s power and position in parliament. This is a very serious issue. Power exists in the construct of the environment and that environment’s rules enables who holds power and when. To get through the next three years, we really need to think hard about this.
But first of all we need to settle some myths.
Labor Opposition Myths
Labor is the Opposition. They do not have the Power to implement their policies, strategies or ideas. The only party who can do that is the party of Government.
Labor does not have the numbers in either house to block any Bills or Legislation.
If Labor and the Greens join together, they do not have the numbers in either house to Block any Government Bills or Legislation. (So when the Greens tell you this. They are lying).
ALL Bills are written by the Government. ALL Bills debated and considered are written by the Government, unless the Government allows a Private Members Bill.
No Bills put before Parliament will be written by Labor, unless Labor secures passage to do so from the Government or via the Senate.
The content of the Bills by the Government are the Bills that need to be debated, and they are not based on the ideological position of the Labor Party; even if they pass with amendments. The amendments are from the ideological position of the Labor party only.
The Lower house holds no power for the Left. To hold power bills must be passed and progressed to the Upper House for Debate. This is the only house where a small amount of power, may be held under the right conditions and strategy for the left.
When the Greens make an amendment or put forward a motion and Labor does not support it; history almost always shows that this is not because Labor is against the “idea” per se; but because of a variety of reasons, including raising the motion in the wrong Bill, or using the wrong procedure in the Senate etc., This is an often used tactic by the Greens (power construct again here folks!) to position themselves as the Left Power. However, if you boil it down, they really are just treating us like idiots, because they know only the nerdy political freaks read the daily Senate Journals.
Choose or the Left Dies
At the rate of how fast the left is eating itself over the last few weeks, those on the Left who seek to divide us, will see the left divisive and dead. I have watched a lot of friendships disintegrate on social media the last few weeks. We have a choice presented by the two major left parties below:
Greens most used option: Concede ALL power to the right wing Cross Bench nutters by blindly protesting. Shame Labor for not conceding all power to the right wing cross bench and misrepresent this to the voting public as “Labor voted against xyz” and flailing about fawning over words like ‘capitulation’. This option is to satisfy ego and create a false construct of power. It is not an option used that can protect the people in the current construction of this parliament. Conceding Power to the right, is the exact opposite of solidarity.
This is the short term thinkers option. This is normally intrinsically motivated to satisfy ego and power.
Labor’s most used Option: Work with the Government to try to implement amendments. This secures support for a Bill, with sufficient amendments to provide protections to society, that is better than the raw Bill put up by the Liberals. This is based on the understanding that if amendments are not secured by the Labor party, without holding balance of power, the amendments will be insisted upon by the Right Wing Cross bench of Christian Conservatives, Nationalists and Centrists. This choice prevents the right wing nutter trade off.
This is the long term thinkers option. This is normally extrinsically motivated as considerations are about preventing the worst possible outcome for the people.
Scenario Based Risk Management
The above choices can be explained via scenario based strategic planning. Within this type of strategic planning the focus is Best Outcome Scenario, Expected Outcome Scenario and Worst Outcome Scenario.
The Worst Outcome Scenario in the make up of this Parliament, is the Right Wing Cross Bench holding the power to negotiate and trade off with the Government for support. To prevent the worst outcome a contingency plan needs to be put in place.
In the case of this parliament, the contingency of the Greens Choice by conceding power and blindly protesting fails; as it allows the worst case scenario outcome. All it does, it make people “Feel” like someone has stood up for them, but in reality, they have done the opposite by handing power to most extreme and radical of those in power who seek to harm them.
In the case of this parliament, the contingency of the Labor Choice by negotiating amendments is the only choice to gain any power. This is either via Government agreement, or convincing the Cross Bench to support the amendments.
Accepting the Ugly
With the make up of this parliament, where the right wing hold power, as the Left, we must accept the ugly choices in this scenario. We must question ourselves upon every single debate of every single Bill:
Q1) Did Labor do all they can to secure amendments to provide protections in that Bill?
Q2) If Labor blindly protests, or votes down a Bill, do we accept the consequences of conceding the power to the Cross Bench to negotiate all wishes, desires and trade offs to secure their support for the passage of that Bill? Do we concede power as the Greens do always to Pauline Hanson, Malcolm Roberts, Jacqui Lambie, Corey Bernardi, Rex Patrick and Stirling Griff to decide on our behalf?
The Left Holds No Legitimate Power
For every single scenario in Parliament for the next three years, the above choices are our choices for what type of opposition we want for every single Bill and every single debate. This is because the Left holds no legitimate power in this parliament. The Government also holds no legitimate power on their own due to the make up of the current Senate. However, based on the ideological leanings of the Cross Bench the legitimate power is more likely for the Right wing Government than the Left.
The only way for the Left to gain legitimate power is to via amendments and negotiations with the Government and Cross Bench to support this power. They have no power via protest or stamping their feet and saying NO! alone.
Short Term vs Long Term
Currently, the left is eating itself because of the strong desire to see the opposition just say NO! to the Government on everything. As argued above, the constraints of power in parliament, this is not as straight forward as it seems. As in Paddy Manning’s article in The Monthly; he speaks to the fact how the Greens will use this to their advantage. My argument in this article, is that whilst I agree, with most of Paddy’s arguments, it is also up to us to decide if we want to ignore the parameters and constraints of opposition in the current parliament, and insist on protest and concede all power to the right wing cross bench. Or we take the complexities into consideration.
We MUST decide if we want to allow the constructs of power in this parliament to divide us, or if we want to get behind Labor by thinking about the questions above. Dividing us, as the Greens always, always seek to do, only gives more power to the Right. (As we have seen as a result of their anti-Labor campaign in the last election via Stop Adani – it suffocated every other single important issue like work rights and healthcare and divided us all).
We MUST decide if we want Labor to be a protest party and adopt the Greens Choice of political strategy and concede power to the Right wing Cross Bench or do we want them to stand up for us and fight via amendments. There is no in-between. Blindly protesting does not enable negotiation power for amendment agreement making. Voting down bills in the lower house, does not create the avenue for negotiation in good faith in the upper house. Sadly, decorum is stiff and boring and procedural, but it is still a thing.
Why Labor Needs to Combat Greens as Well as the Government
I know which choice is in the long term interest of all of us, and it is not misrepresenting using the only avenue to gain power via amendments as capitulation.
As socialists (well I am) we should be looking at the worst possible outcome for the most vulnerable. Protecting the most vulnerable in the make up of this parliament does not include playing games and conceding all power to the Cross Bench nutters via the Greens Choice.
It is trying to gain the only skerrick of power available to protect us by trying to amend bad legislation and eradicate the power of the right wing Cross bench nuttery.
The improvement that Labor could make is to start hammering and keep hammering the power constructs of the current parliament. Stop using political words and speak to the people straight. We can take it.
Labor needs to sit the Greens on their backsides, by pushing them to explain their reasoning via the choices available right now and remind voters that the Greens hold no power and by blindly protesting they give ALL power to people like Pauline Hanson.
Labor needs to really push the Greens and be very vocal about WHY the Greens are too lazy to do any of the hard work in convincing the Cross Bench to oppose the Liberal Bill or support Labor’s amendments. They need to insist that the Greens explain themselves to voters on this.
If Labor supports a Bill without securing amendments, they need to really explain loud and clear to the public, what the alternative risks the cross bench posed by allowing the cross bench to negotiate the Bill without Labor’s support and why Labor could not accept that risk. Once again, we can take it.
Getting a bit angry sometimes would also bloody well help. People out here are starving for real emotion. They need to feel protected and stood up for, and Labor needs to do that WELL with the cards and choices dealt by the voting public.
I choose Labor.
PS: I hope now I have (hopefully) demonstrated the choices and construction of this parliament in terms of power, how the three year campaign by the Greens against Labor via Stop Adani, was never in our long term interest, but always, always in the short term interest of the Greens. And now we are suffering for it.
The Red Window 
Thanks Trish.. You have clarified my thinking as to how to deal with this government.. Labor does need to explain why they vote in the way they do, every time and challenge the Greens, every time.. It’s going to be to g and tedious but we will have to bring supporters along, every time.
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Posted by Judy Wilkins | July 5, 2019, 4:44 pmThanks Judy. I had to write it. Things are getting out of hand out there! I’m watching people who have got along fine for years blocking each other. That’s sad.
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Posted by trishcorry | July 5, 2019, 4:45 pmThanks so much Trish for clarifying the issue so well. I must admit to being one of the knee jerkers, but after reading your recent tweets and this piece,it has gelled what I had finally started to realise, which is the Labor strategy you have outlined and that once and for all the Greens really have no interest in pursuing what’s best for the country, but the best way to wedge Labor.
It should be Labor and the Greens joining forces to combat the IPA/Liars and their appalling fascist hangers on, but it is not to be.
I hope the doubters will take the time to read this post and finally understand what Labor is really up against-the most corrupt government and cross bench possibly in the history of this country and a conniving, dishonest mob of spoilers intent on sabotaging the only party with the bst interests of ALL Australians not just a select very wealthy few.
PS Apologies to @AlboMP for the harsh things I’ve said about him. My bad.
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Posted by Jane | July 6, 2019, 7:10 amThanks Jane.
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Posted by trishcorry | July 6, 2019, 2:25 pmThanks Trish, I will take this to our next branch meeting, and use to try to deflect some of the rancour among our own.I was surprised to see some of our strongest people join in the Labor bashing on Twitter. So disappointing and poorly thought out.
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Posted by 💧Jane Turnbull quite angry now (@GrumpyOldLady01) | July 5, 2019, 5:08 pmThanks Jane. I’m very disappointed about some very big voices on Twitter who I thought were better than some of the things they are spreading about. Blue Tick folks.
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Posted by trishcorry | July 5, 2019, 5:17 pmIt is indeed very discouraging, but it certainly separates the wheat from the chaff. Keep up your excellent work.
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Posted by Jane | July 6, 2019, 7:13 amThank you for your cogent article and explaining how it is in the Parliament.
The Coalition certainly have the power and the Greens have their wedge. (saying whatever takes their fancy against labor in the hope of harvesting Labor voters to their side of politics. Which I have a great deal of trouble understanding what it actually is)
The Labor Party are the party of policy. They took a fantastic policy suite to the 2019 election. It was well developed and was also costed. It redistributed the cake more fairly.
It wasn’t too large either. That just showed that they were the only party that actually had done the work to have a plan for Australia’s future. The Liberals have slogans and the Greens have their holier than thou stance.
But the labor party are not the party of the slick media campaign (Liberals with their slogans) or the ideology and rigidity (and hypocrisy) of the Greens.
That slick campaign by the Liberals along with a bucket full of lies worked against labor beautifully.
The Adani mine and the Greens campaign about one single issue which they knew was covered by a set of laws which if complied with, would see the mine approved. Was as dishonest as the lies the liberals told about Retiree taxes and a plethora of other taxes which just didn’t exist.
The Labor party might be naive Politically (Unlike the Liberals and the Greens), but they beat, hands down anything the Greens could put up as well as the vacuum which is Liberal Policy.
That Naivety and a Partisan Press saw them fall short. But not far short.
I think they did OK. All they need to do is counter the ongoing and (frankly boring message) about Union Thugs and Labor being controlled by them.
Then when elections come around actually employ professionals to tell the stories of their policy.
Not much of a change is needed. Just the message that the struggles which started in 1700’s in the UK and continued in Australia have never ceased.
There is no difference between the Landowners who had the workers flogged for disobedience, than this deceitful and arrogant mob who have just changed a whole lot of laws to oppress the workers in this country.
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Posted by Vince O'Grady | July 5, 2019, 6:29 pmHi Vince. Love your comment and agree totally about Labor’s suite of policies. Certainly they were a very comprehensive package of Labor’s ambitions for all of the country, but Labor had been out and about selling and explaining them for the last three years in the good old fashioned way-Town Halls where the people saw the flesh and blood people behind the policies. I only heard and read very favourable reports.
However, despite all the utter nonsense being spruiked about why Labor lost, particularly the Shorten bashing, there are 60 million reasons why we lost, none of them the actual policies, nor Bill, but a rabid, rancid campaign of lies, misinformation,deceit and smear by a corrupt miner and his equally corrupt partner in crime the mealy mouthed religious hypocrite and King of Mendacity, ‘Scum.
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Posted by Jane | July 6, 2019, 7:29 amThanks Vince and thanks for bringing that focus that this is all about the workers vs capital in a nutshell.
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Posted by trishcorry | July 5, 2019, 6:32 pmA well thought out piece Trish,much kudos to you
Peter Khalil has a perfect tweet to add to this
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Posted by Bighead1883 | July 5, 2019, 6:45 pmAs a radical Socialist, I say you never work with any party or individual, who supports Policies that harm or weaken working -class People or movements.
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Posted by Daniel | July 5, 2019, 7:34 pmMy above comment shows you how Greens despise the workers
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Posted by Bighead1883 | July 5, 2019, 7:35 pmSo to be clear, as a radical socialist, we should concede all power to the most radical worker hating politicians in power right now on the Crossbench to make whatever demands they want, including destroying workers rights and conditions even further. including “red tape’ health and safety, so workers die? I’m glad my view is just Marxist then. Not sure I agree that the radical socialism is the way to go.
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Posted by trishcorry | July 5, 2019, 7:39 pmOk! I like your analysis and I needed it. I was at the point of looking at what the “greens” had to offer even though I have been a Labor supporter and socialist for 50 years.
I don’t like your conclusions only because it’s going to be extremely painful for next 3 years (or longer).
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Posted by John Leslie | July 5, 2019, 9:57 pmThanks John
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Posted by trishcorry | July 5, 2019, 10:02 pmTrish the job of an opposition is to oppose government policy and to clearly remonstrate their own. To go along with the tory tax cuts for the filthy rich is a sellout to the median wage earners of this country. When I voted Labor at the last election, I could see whilst I was handing out how to votes that a huge number of people had been effected by the tory propaganda of fear and I didn’t have to wait to hear the election results to know what would happen. That said when I voted I expected that win lose or draw Labor should continue to stand by its principles.
There is no honor in capitulation, no guts, no glory! Whitlam never shrunk from his principles, he simply explained in layman’s English what Labor’s policies were and how Labor’s policies would advantage everyday Australians. This is precisely what I expected from the current parliamentary party, however what we have seen is a stumble at the first hurdle because the party was afraid that they would be wedged. That’s not good enough! What should have occurred was for the party to oppose the tax cuts for the filthy rich and to explain to the Australian people why they were doing so, again in layman’s English, not political babble.
These tax cuts will mean that in coming years federal govt revenue will be restrained so the tories will happily slug working people whose children attend public schools with funding cuts, who attend public hospitals, even emergency wards, after the patient recovers and receives a bill (invoice) from the hospital they will then blame the State govt (if it happens to be a Labor govt) not likely in Queensland after their capitulation on Adani, however if we have an LNP State govt then the blame will be shared on each other federal/State. The apathetic voter won’t know who to blame and by then these tax cuts will not even be a distant memory.
Unless the Labor Party wakes up and discovers who it is that actually votes Labor (the great majority of median wage earners) and begins representing them the ALP will also become a distant memory. They have not represented ‘labour’ for decades and have become a de facto Liberal Party, and unless they discover what their principles ‘should be’ and start standing up for those principles they will all be out of a creamy job.
There was once a State Labor politician by the name of Kev Hooper, who would not consider any piece of legislation without first asking “how will this effect legislation effect the poorest people in Queensland” a philosophy well and truly lost by current Labor parties. I almost feel that the reason that Labor is spelt without a ‘u’ is because you (meaning we) no longer matter.
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Posted by townsvilleblog | July 5, 2019, 11:05 pmHey Shaun. Thanks for stopping by. I also believe that an opposition’s job is to do their very best to prevent harm from the opposing party. That is why this article is about what power exists in the parliament and the choices that can be made. If you choose for Labor to just blindly protest, then do you agree it is OK when the Cross bench are making all the amendments and trade offs, that if it harms vulnerable people; you are fine with Labor doing nothing to stop the demands from the Cross bench? Hanson, Roberts, Bernardi? If you are OK with the not only bad legislation going unchallenged by Labor and allowing them to horse trade with the nutters on the Cross Bench and us wear those trade offs, then communicate that to Labor. Tell them that you prefer it if they protested and left the negotiations of Bills up to Hanson, Roberts, Bernardi, Lambie and CA. and you will be happy with whatever they decide. I personally would rather the Cross Bench don’t have the power to horse trade if it can be prevented, because a few of them are actually total psychos who literally hate women, brown people, gays and workers.
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Posted by trishcorry | July 5, 2019, 11:45 pmThe slow motion capitulation you are advocating is the same process that has been driving the Overton window rightwards for the last thirty-odd years, resulting in a) the normalisation of increasingly right-wing policy positions and b) pushing historically fairly mundane left-wing views (eg: pretty much anything to do with taxation other than reducing it) to the fringe.
Even the Greens, by far the most economically left-wing and socially progressive mainstream party and a group for whom “watermelons” used to actually be an accurate description, have suffered from it.
It has been a disaster all over the world.
But the problem is not people who remain faithful to their left-wing views. The problem is people who keep saying “well, we’ll just give them a little bit here and then when we get into power again we’ll change it back”. Newsflash: it hardly ever gets changed back.
People need to accept Labor haven’t been a left-wing party since Keating, they have been a centrist neoliberal (“third way”) party. Even then, the supposed social conscience and progressiveness that alignment is _supposed_ to have has catastrophically failed on multiple occasions (eg: refugees, same sex marriage) and consequently cannot be relied on. Continuing to support them will do nothing more than encourage that steady rightwards movement of the Overton window, as the right come in with relatively extreme ideas (eg: rolling back SSM changes) and New Labor negotiates to settle for something a little less extreme, but still a backwards step (eg: religious celebrants are allowed to refuse to marry a same-sex couple) – all in the name of compromise.
The REAL problem is we have a system that isn’t democratic enough. It a) has gatekeepers to vet and police what are “acceptable” ideas to be discussed (ie: there’s no way for the people to directly propose policy) and b) produces an “electoral dictatorship” that says once an election has occurred everyone who wasn’t on the winning side has to sit down and shut up until the next election. The people instinctively understand this, which is why their votes are steadily shifting away from the primary parties and into a myriad of smaller parties (which, of course, almost always end up back at one of the majors anyway thanks to preferencing, but that’s the whole point of how the system is constructed). The irony is that the Senate is now more representative of the people than the Reps.
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Posted by drsmithy | July 6, 2019, 11:20 amYeh not sure how complaining about the wider system has any impact on what we need to deal with over the next three years, which is what the article is about. I disagree with your assessment of the Greens being progressive. Well possibly not. Progressive doesn’t necessarily mean worker centric or Marxist or socialist even.
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Posted by trishcorry | July 6, 2019, 2:24 pmThe next three years will be like the last thirty.
Labor will be forced steadily rightwards, people (especially younger, not-rusted-on voters) will continue to abandon it because of that and go looking for someone to represent their left-wing views either holistically (eg: Greens) or in part (eg: PHON with its economic nationalism).
The crossbench is (and will be) cheaply bought, so Labor will only be an influencer when they are prepared to either sacrifice more in principles (that can subsequently be hung over them in the future), or supporting legislation that’s so bad the crossbenchers won’t.
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Posted by drsmithy | July 6, 2019, 6:49 pmIt’s a serious dilemma
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Posted by trishcorry | July 6, 2019, 7:13 pmSpot on, a true believer & an enlightened believer
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Posted by David Vallon | July 6, 2019, 2:33 pmThank you for this excellent and timely article. It is exactly how I feel and think. I, like others, am totally devastated by the election result however we however we have to move quickly and accept the new realty.
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Posted by Mal Chaplin | July 6, 2019, 5:00 pmThx Mal
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Posted by trishcorry | July 6, 2019, 5:53 pmThe federal government should be running large fiscal deficits. This particular government is philosophically and culturally opposed to doing this. They will run a combination of small deficits and small surpluses…. basically a balanced fiscal position and they will tout this as evidence of good economic management. They will invoke the metaphor that the federal government is like a household that must live within its means and “save” for the future (what does it even mean to save a currency that you keystroke into existence thousands of times per day?).
I wonder if the ALP will be politically adroit enough to exploit the economic damage that will be palpable to voters over the next three years.
I think the ALP need to be aggressive and persistent in campaigning on economic justice themes coupled with concrete plans to create jobs for the unemployed and to massively expand and improve public services and infrastructure.
I think the ALP need to openly kill the fake knowledge behind the surplus fetish that blights economic policy-making. They need to explain that federal government deficits are non-government surpluses. They need to explain that the constraints on the federal government’s spending are real resource availability, not finance.
They need to explain that the domestic private sector in aggregate typically wants to run a surplus and the external sector (the rest of the world) in aggregate typically wants to run a surplus, and the upshot of this is that the federal government will by definition run a fiscal deficit that equals the sum of the other two sectors’ surpluses. And there is nothing wrong with this! Federal government deficits are normal! A federal government surplus would only be appropriate if we had a roaring current account surplus that was overheating the domestic private sector.
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Posted by Nicholas Haines | July 6, 2019, 7:22 pmThe Labor Party wants to, just like the Coalition did, get elected. They have no interest in saving us from certain extinction. Both sides develop policies to pursue unlimited growth and provide ever more energy guzzling infrastructure. Only the fucking stupid which, is most and includes all politicians, would think that this is good.
The Left is certainly going to die; along with the rest of us.
Only by implementing radical alternative policies that reduce our numbers and the shrink the economy will we have any chance. What politician has the courage to scare the bejezus out of the puplic and panic them into addressing our extinction? Not a single Labor politician will. They have to quote the party line which, is set by even stupider fucking idiots whose ignorance will soon be exposed.
“Choose or the left or die.” Ha! Decide now or we all die.
To benefit us, the Labor would need a new set of basic principles that does not include the destruction of the natural environment. I don’t think that is ever going to happen. The Labor Party has no courage.
My apologies for the proganity. Stupid people make me angry and Labor politicians, just like politicians the world over, are stupid. They would do worse than nothing; they, like politicians everywhere are currently doing, would actually would make our situation worse. There is no reason to vote Labor when, the final outcome will be the same; total collapse in a world inhospitable to human existance.
Have a nice day.
Cheers.
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Posted by Harquebus | July 7, 2019, 8:28 amThe target is three years away.
The goal must be to be electable and elected.
Strategies must include broad, consistent policies, well argued and pruned to eliminate anything that cannot survive public theatre.
The Greens have never and will never form a coalition – they cannot because their negotiating style is akin to that of a brick.
So, don’t clutter too much by trying to change or adopt Greens’ policies unless they match 100% those of the ALP.
Then set out to pursue those policies every step of the way, in all forums – parliament, within the party and publicly. Anything less is inconsistent, will lead to division and to defeat.
Two last things:
One: The principal duty of every MP in each house, Senate or Reps, is to govern. Not to oppose. So minimise the negative stuff and focus on policy and ways to achieve it.
Two: The election is three years away. Cut the comment and scheming regarding election strategies, etc. There are teams of folk of good will and talent who watch over this until the next election looms. Only then is this a profitable subject for public discussion.
And don’t try to argue with house bricks.
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Posted by singletonengineer | July 10, 2019, 11:02 amLove this comment!
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Posted by trishcorry | July 10, 2019, 11:03 amThanks Trish,
I like many people I know have been disappointed by a perceived lack of opposition by labour. I personally had high hopes of Albo’s cunning making Scotty from marketing appear like an arrogant klutz. (he’s managed to do that without any help from Albo at all). I was starting to lose hope until I read your article clearly explaining Labour’s lack of options. It’s a reminder to me not jump to a conclusion until I understand the situation better. I will try to share this article with as many as I can as it so clearly explains the current situation. I totally agree with the idea that Labour needs to clarify what’s going on to people like me so we don’t get disheartened and give up. Once again thank you.
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Posted by Rod Currell | February 2, 2020, 1:53 pmThx Rod.
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Posted by trishcorry | February 2, 2020, 1:55 pmThank you!
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Posted by jedara1 | May 16, 2021, 9:12 am