The Labour party doesn’t do democracy, apparently.
A Corbynista Labour MP was cheered last night as she demanded a general strike to ‘topple’ the government.
Laura Smith urged the mass industrial action if the party could not win power by forcing a general election.
So, she wants to break the law, to effectively use a coup to overturn an elected government? Right. That tells us everything we need to know about these vile people.
The extraordinary call to break the law – as she addressed ‘comrades’ at a fringe meeting in Liverpool during the Labour conference – sparked a standing ovation from an audience including shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon.
These people have no place sitting in Parliament. They should be arrested and charged with sedition and a by-election held.
But other senior figures rushed to distance themselves from the demand today, saying that Ms Smith had got ‘carried away’.
Yes, sure, in that she said what they were thinking…
It’s a bad law. It should be broken on principle. Don’t think it will topple any government though.
No, much as I dislike too many laws, the use of union power to topple democratically elected governments is rightly illegal. The strike weapon should only be used (sparingly) in a specific dispute, not as a general weapon – the use of flying pickets was an abhorrence. This was one thing that Thatcher got absolutely right. And despite being an opponent, I was behind her on this one.
To be fair, I think their entire history makes it more than clear what the left are: totalitarian troughers with no concern other than getting and keeping power.
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