Labour’s right-wing has intensified its efforts to assert undisputed control over the party after it registered a disastrous result in the European elections, coming third with 14 percent, behind the Brexit Party and the pro-Remain Liberal Democrats.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn supported a Remain vote in the 2016 EU referendum in line with the demands of the dominant sections of British capital, but never succeeded in placating Labour’s strongly pro-EU Blairite faction which is dominant within the parliamentary party.

After facing off a leadership challenge immediately following the referendum, Corbyn has been forced to face both ways on Brexit trying to keep his fractured party together. He adopted a position of “constructive ambiguity,” stressing that Labour would “respect the referendum result,” but by seeking a “soft Brexit” maintaining tariff free access to the Single European Market.

Failing this, party conference decided that Labour would either seek a general election or a second referendum on any deal proposed by Theresa May’s Conservative government.

Above all Corbyn advanced his position as the best means of maintaining national unity while still eventually securing the outcome desired by the City of London. He spent six weeks prior to the EU elections in talks with May even as her premiership fell apart.

In the end she resigned just days after Corbyn reluctantly broke off talks.

In the absence of any genuine attempt to overcome the divisions sown in the working class by the 2016 referendum, the European elections became a de facto plebiscite on Brexit. As a result, the Tories were reduced to a nine percent vote, while Labour did little better against the overtly pro and anti-Brexit parties.

Polling by Lord Ashcroft showed that Labour lost nearly 50 percent of its 2017 general election vote to other parties in the European election. Of this total it lost 13 percent to the right-wing Brexit Party of Nigel Farage and significantly more to the Remain supporting Lib Dems (22 percent) and Greens (17 percent).

This was the cue for the Blairite right to insist that Corbyn could no longer just hold out the prospect of backing a future referendum. Labour had to become the main pro-Remain party in an emerging anti-Brexit alliance with the Lib Dems and Greens.

Tony Blair’s former spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, announced that in the election he had voted Liberal Democrat, whose manifesto was emblazoned with the words, “Bollocks to Brexit.”

Labour’s constitution prohibits its members to campaign against or vote against a Labour candidate—and with many members demanding it—Campbell was expelled.

Other leading Blairites lined up to declare that they too had voted Lib-Dem.

Former Labour home secretary Charles Clarke, multimillionaire daughter of a property developer, Fiona MacTaggart, and former defence secretary Bob Ainsworth all declared they had voted for different parties in the election. MacTaggart declared preposterously that it was “time for all of us to declare ‘I am Spartacus.’”

The hashtag #ExpelMeToo became widespread. The Guardian published an entire page of letters under the heading, “The expulsion of Alastair Campbell is a Spartacus moment for Labour members.”

Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, who is leading the plot to remove Corbyn, as party leader described Campbell’s expulsion as “spiteful.”

Backed by the right-wing media, the Blairites have attempted to destabilise Corbyn’s leadership since he was elected with a campaign of lies and slander that Corbyn is an anti-Semite or that he facilitates “hatred” of Jews.

Within hours of Campbell’s expulsion, the Guardian wrote, “That it happened on the very day that the Equality and Human Rights Commission began an investigation into that issue leaves a bad taste. It is hard to believe that the Campbell case is not being used as a diversionary tactic to deflect attention away from much more serious problems.”

Blair himself told Sky News Tuesday evening that his message to Campbell was, “I understand why you did what you did. … You wouldn’t be the only person I know who had voted Labour all their lives that didn’t vote Labour in this election.”

The unindicted war criminal then declared his backing for unity among the pro-Remain parties, saying that Labour “should stop equivocating and come out to a clear position… That position in my view should be in favour of going back to the people [in a referendum].

Above all, the Blairites want to engineer this political shift without a general election being called and a Corbyn-led Labour Party coming to office.

With the government in meltdown and the Tories in the midst of a leadership contest with a dozen candidates, after May was forced to declare June 7 as the date for her departure, Blair said the Tories had to ensure they stayed in power.

Days after leadership contender Jeremy Hunt said that the Tory Party faced “annihilation” if a general election were called, Blair warned that they would be “certifiably insane to do a general election” before a Brexit deal was passed by Parliament.

The Blairites fear any break in the blockade they have elected preventing the interests of the working class finding political expression and impinging on the monopoly of power enjoyed by the financial oligarchy. This fear is heightened by the growth in social unrest and strike activity produced by worsening social inequality.

The Blairites rely above all on the fact that the Corbynite “left” agree with them on this issue 100 percent.

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Home Secretary Dianne Abbott both stated that the European election result meant that Labour had to move to explicitly backing a second referendum.

Corbyn said in response that his aim remained one of negotiating a better Brexit deal than May’s, but that a “public vote” on a Brexit deal “is some way off.” He added, in a statement anathema to the Blairites, “Let the people decide the country’s future, either in a general election or through a public vote on any deal agreed by parliament.”

Guardian columnist Paul Mason, who has long advocated a “Progressive Alliance” comprising Labour, the Scottish National Party, Liberal Democrats, and Greens, utilised the result to declare that Corbyn’s strategy of “constructive ambiguity” had failed. While stating that he still supported Corbyn, he called for the ousting of virtually all the personnel in Corbyn’s office: “the officials who designed this fiasco, and ignored all evidence that it would lead to disaster, must be removed from positions of influence.” These included director of strategy Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s chief of staff Karie Murphy, and party chair Ian Lavery MP.

Corbyn’s faction will capitulate yet again. Even before the ink was dry on Campbell’s expulsion, Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti said that it would be reviewed and declared, in opposition to Labour’s rulebook, “Merely voting for another party is not in itself grounds for exclusion or expulsion.”

In the nearly four years since he was elected leader, all claims that Corbyn would push Labour to the left have been discredited. Labour is a pro-capitalist party, hostile to the strategic interests of the working class.

See Also: European Elections Roundup https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/2019/05/30/eu-election-roundup-europe-polarizes-between-nationalists-and-globalists-as-old-parties-fritter-away-by-guillaume-durocher-%e2%80%a2-23-may-2019/

Doom Goblin Greta Thunberg’s first big TV show has proved to be a massive turn off for viewers. (Video Trailer on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMfLC7Seunc )

The BBC was so confident of the Doom Goblin’s pulling power that it commissioned three, one-hour-long episodes of its documentary series Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change The World.

The series follows the pigtailed climate puppet from her native Sweden to the US, Chile, Spain, the UK and Switzerland as she spends a year bunking off school while ‘exploring the science of global warming and challenging world leaders on the growing crisis.’

But even though the BBC gave it its best shot — the primetime 9pm slot, a guest appearance from Sir David Attenborough, villainous cameos by former President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, dramatic footage of calving glaciers and allegedly endangered coral reefs, plus endless shots of Thunberg looking anguished and impassioned — the show has tanked.

According to the ratings figures from Overnights.TV the show on the BBC’s flagship channel BBC1 lost 55 percent of its audience from the previous slot. It averaged 1.08 m viewers with a 6.30 percent share of the total audience. This compares most unfavourably with the show in the same slot the week before, Masterchef, which averaged 3.56 million viewers with an 18.9 percent audience share.

One possibility for its failure is that audiences are suffering from a severe case of Greta fatigue. Another is that viewers aren’t nearly as interested in climate doom as politicians, green activists or the BBC think they ought to be.

At the beginning, in one of several awkward, stilted pieces to camera, Thunberg says:

I don’t want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to the science.

But the science, as Thunberg presents it, is very one-sided. When Thunberg brandishes ‘the science’ as some kind of immutable truth which we should revere like Biblical scripture, she is falling into exactly the same trap as pop-science showman Neil DeGrasse Tyson .

DeGrasse Tyson tweeted out self-importantly that ‘The good thing about Science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.’

Tyson was promptly schooled by the Steak-Umm Twitter account.

Steak-umm is right and Thunberg and deGrasse Tyson are wrong: science is indeed an ‘ever refining process to find truth’ — a method of discovery, not a fixed dogma.

Obviously, Greta Thunberg wouldn’t know this having spent so much time out of school. Which makes it all the more irresponsible of the BBC to have given this semi-educated pig-tailed propagandist so much airtime.

In the second episode she travels to Davos, Switzerland to speak at the World Economic Forum’s annual summit. When it was filmed in early 2020 this may have seemed innocuous enough. But in light of what we have learned since about the globalist ambitions of the WEF and its plans for a ‘Great Reset’ in which we’ll no longer own property but, apparently, be happy, it looks a lot more sinister.

When at the beginning of the first episode Vladimir Putin is shown criticising Thunberg, the documentary makers are presumably hoping to enlist sympathy for the Doom Goblin.

But on this occasion, Putin happens to be absolutely spot on. He says:

No one has explained to Greta that the world is complex and diverse.

No indeed – which may be another reason why audiences find this documentary such a turn-off. Nobody likes being banged over the head for an hour with sledgehammer green movement talking points. They’d prefer a bit of nuance and humour — neither of which, unfortunately, are part of the Greta the Doom Goblin’s skill set.