Dear All
With reference to The Guardian on-line (https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/15/dwp-law-change-jobseekers-poundland).
I wish to it be understood that should the Labour Party support the government in the pursuit of emergency legislation to deny repayments that the English Courts have ruled were illegally with-held, then I will resign from the Labour Party.
That a Labour Party could support such an odious and repugnant measure merely confirms in my mind that the modern Labour Party has become nothing more than the Tory Party with added hand-wringing and theatrical angst. We have a leadership far more interested in not upsetting anything that it has become an anodyne shadow of what it once was.
Oh! But the Labour Party will only, “support the fast-tracked bill with some further safeguards and that negotiations with the coalition are ongoing [sic].” This sickening platitude does nothing to quieten my extreme displeasure. What safeguards? For whom? The ONLY safeguards that can be discussed are those that assure those illegally denied benefit recipients that their outstanding payments will be met, in full, without delay.
Has the Labour Party forgotten where it comes from? Has it forgotten its commitment to the unions and to the working class, or it now solely interested in faux pandering to the greed and iniquity of the much revived class war? Are we now so middle-class?
I most sincerely hope that the grass roots will take a very strong view on this matter.
I see small future for the Labour Party I once admired. We bang on about tax cuts for millionaires in faux socialist horror, but when it comes to protecting our own, we do precisely NOTHING.
Dr Ian Sedwell
