After the unveiling of yet another political suit with no real life experience as leader, the Labour Party is making believe that it is a ‘new generation’ ready to lead the fight against the ConDems. What rubbish! Gathered around the Shadow Cabinet table at Westminster will be the same people who have spent the last thirteen years in office making the poor poorer and the rich richer, whilst throwing billions of taxpayers pounds at the glorified bookies’ runners who run the banks. The same people that led the Labour Party away from its working class roots to lick the boots of the rich and privileged. The same people that destroyed the pensions of thousands, and penalised the elderly who had saved and supported themselves for over fifty years. The same people who gave ninety per cent of all new jobs to immigrants whilst allowing the sale of English companies such as Cadburys and calling on English workers to take pay cuts.

Typically the ‘new’ Labour leader, Ed Milliband, used his first speech to stab the people who elected him in the back, warning the trade unions that he would not support their campaign against the savage cuts planned by the ConDems. Once again same Labour; abandoning the millions who look to it in defence of their interests, against the Sunday Times Rich List, sorry ConDems cabinet, that runs the country on behalf of overseas bankers and speculators. No wonder his brother, the banana expert, retired to the back benches, who would want to be associated with this discredited shower of losers? Ed Milliband was no doubt taking lessons from his mentor Neil Kinnock, who when Labour leader also abandoned the grass roots in the face of the last extreme right Tory regime. Kinnock was so good at his job he was sent packing to the house of the failed – the European Commission – in another five years Ed Milliband will join him. It is sad to see the thousands of genuine Labour members and supporters putting their weight behind this lightweight leader, when will they ever learn that modern politicians do not care for the millions of ordinary people; they all want to be Tony Blair and use politics to amass a fortune, regardless of the lives lost or destroyed in the process.

What Labour members and supporters need to realise is that it is not a new leader, or a new generation that is needed to protect their futures but a new politics. A new politics that gives more power to local communities, breaks up the banks and the building societies and takes them back to their local roots. A new politics that puts people ahead of profits and that encourages every citizen to play a part in the building of a new future. A new politics that brings our soldiers home from foreign wars and puts the emphasis on fighting crime on our doorstep instead. We call upon anyone thinking of joining or supporting Old Labour to abandon those who would abandon you and join the only organisation willing to fight the ConDem dictatorship as it prepares to target the elderly and the vulnerable. We, in the English Radical Alliance, will be supporting our communities in this dark hour, and we call upon all who oppose the unnecessary cuts to join our campaign.
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