I was just about to blog about it being another crap week for socialists ( a line which is frankly beginning to bore me rigid) when I picked up the following e=mail from a Labour Party comrade with impeccable sources. So instead of banging on about the usual suspects here is a tale which might make you smile........
At a meeting in London on 13th March a couple of hecklers were attacking John McDonnell for being a member of the Labour Party. Veteran trade unionist Harry Whittaker answered them in his typically forthrightScottish manner. He said: “What would a working man do if he had spent years building himself a house only to find it had become infested byrats? Would he give up his home and move elsewhere, leaving the housecompletely in the control of the rats? Of course not! He would never givein to the rats; he would fight them and he would not rest until he had ridhis house of the last vestige of this verminous infestation. And this is exactly the same course of action which the true socialist must take with the House of Labour." The full text is on the Socialist Appeal website.......
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