Blunkett Talks Bollocks

David Blunkett has talked some bollocks in his time, and shares a large part of the blame ofr the position that Labour is in due to the Tory policies on immigration, and austerity he pushed through in the last Labour Government, but his comments tonight on the BBC take the biscuit.

Jeremy Corbyn has won the largest backing of any party leader, of any party, not just of the Labour Party.  He won 60% of the party members votes only a few months ago, and since then another 200,000 party members have joined due to the enthusiasm he has brought.  By contrast, there are just 170 cosseted Labour MP's who think that the party exists for no other reason than to keep them in a good living, who have voted against him.  Blunkett himself having got used to the high life and cosseting, has now joined the other Tories and fat cats in the House of Lords, where of course he does not have to worry about tedious things such as democracy to keep him in the Tory lifestyle he has become accustomed to.

But Blunkett has the audacity to call on Corbyn and the several hundred thousand party members who stand behind him to leave and set up their own party.  What totally utter bollocks, but how typically self-centred of politicians like Blunkett.  It is they who are out of step with the party.  It is they who should leave and set up their own party and see how they go on.

Meanwhile another illustration of the support for Corbyn from ordinary working people came from the Durham Miners.  In an online poll being run by the Sunderland Echo, support for Corbyn amongst its readers is running at 66% for him to stay, and only 34% to go.

Corbyn represents the true voice of Labour and of ordinary working people, whereas careerist politicians like Blunkett are the voice of the past, and their own inflated egos.