Donald Roy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> </p><p>It is worth recalling that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tradeunions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tradeunions</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialistsocieties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialistsocieties</span></a> set up the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labourparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labourparty</span></a> so as to exercise countervailing power within the political system. There was a real risk during the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blair</span></a> years that it would be captured by those very corporate lobbies and their useful idiots - set out at the time by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colincrouch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colincrouch</span></a> who described it as 'post democracy'. I had thought that danger had gone but that may be premature in the light of stories about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/morganmcsweeny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morganmcsweeny</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waheedalli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waheedalli</span></a> !</p>