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The moral degeneration of the Labor Left : Comments
By Marko Beljac, published 15/1/2010The Labor Left likes to pretend that it is the conscience of the Party, yet in reality it has become a self serving faction.
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And if they do, they no longer need support because they're no longer disadvantaged. Simple, isn't it? Do you genuinely think that middle-class people require government support? If they do, we've fallen a long, long way since I was a child.
Your characterisation of Labor politics as a patriarchal machine is quite wrong in today's world, when affirmative action policies mean that a minimally-qualified woman will gain pre-selection over better-qualified men. Add to that the dominance of women in the white-collar unions (for similar and related reasons) and you have a very different picture to the one you're trying to paint.
Chris C, it seems you largely agrree with my list of time-servers. I'm prepared to accept your view of Kosky's talents in the absence of sufficient interest to follow it up. I don't agree about Macklin: she's done virtually nothing in her role as Minister and she wasn't up to much as a Shadow.
JLDeland:"It is very easy to sit online and anonymously fire off cow-pats at public individuals from a safe distance."
Not as easy as getting a "job for the girls" within the Labor Party...