Posted: Apr 28, 2015 11:59 pm
ronmcd wrote:I would urge everyone with a left of centre bone in their body to read this recent essay by a journalist who works for STV in Glasgow. He's fairly well known in Scottish politics, probably not to those in other parts of UK. I don't agree with all of it, but it does I think chime with most people who were, or had families who were, "old" Labour.For Granddad, ‘socialism’ was just a ten-bob word for common decency.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides/ana ... -politics/
A very fine article
We have the same issue here with Australian Labor deserting its socialist roots, and people of the left agonising over throwing their lot (and their vote) in with the Australian Greens, who both keep a more authentic leftist spirit alive, and have their own baggage - not nationalist, but somewhat problematic in other ways.