DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Labour is betraying Britain by caving in to its Leftist factions
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As each new speaker sauntered on to the stage at Labour’s party conference yesterday, the dire implications of Andy Burnham’s coup became clearer.
This is not the party that ordinary voters were asked to support a little more than two years ago.
The Trots and Bolsheviks within Labour’s ranks must scarcely believe their luck as they watch Britain’s political tempo shift in their direction, without the inconvenience of having to win a general election.
The Liverpool conference hall was a non-stop Leftie love-in.
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband addressed the party’s radical factions directly as he attempted to defend his controversial and dangerous sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
‘I want to say to the millions of people in this country… who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right,’ he simpered.
The Foreign Secretary continues to ignore grave concerns raised by British Jews – including the Chief Rabbi, who has warned the sanctions will leave his community even less safe.
If that was not a big enough insult, Miliband then insisted that Britain’s future ‘lies in a stronger, deeper partnership with the European Union’, a line designed to give succour to Brexit-deniers everywhere.
Andy Burnham's coup has shifted Britain's political tempo in favour of Trots and Bolsheviks
Chancellor John Healey limply told the conference hall he would not let the benefits bill soar – but, take note, that is not the same as promising a reduction in Britain’s already gargantuan welfare spending.
Nor did he offer any inkling of how he will go about paying for his party’s vastly expensive policies.
In a sop to Labour’s trade union paymasters, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander eulogised renationalisation of the railways and condemned ‘30 years of fragmentation’ on the network, completely overlooking the entire Blair-Brown era.
Next on the conveyor belt was Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who attempted to soft soap Labour acolytes with fast-track asylum routes.
In another act of appeasement, she heavily hinted she will water down parts of her plan to make certain types of migrants wait longer for permission to stay in Britain indefinitely.
On the airwaves, the Prime Minister said Britain has ‘significant problems’ and that with his conference speech later today ‘we can start to put it right’, apparently forgetting the fact he’s been in charge for more than ten weeks.
Throughout the summer, following Burnham’s knife-in-the-back takeover, his administration was so veiled and wraithlike that it was easy to miss just how it has lurched towards radicalism.
But these few days in Liverpool have brought to the fore that Labour is blinded by its own conceit, and straining at the leash to ramp up taxes.
Eager to please its far-Left comrades at all costs, there is no consideration for the voters who tentatively backed the party in a loveless landslide at the last election.
Very little from Labour’s new agenda has been put to the public at the ballot box.
It is a Government that risks spiralling violently out of control because, irresponsibly, it is pandering to its own factions rather than serving the British people as a whole.
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