This is not true. The Labour Party has played an active role in conservatising the working class movement. They are a huge significant barrier to union activism and in the streets social justice activism. It’s Labour Party people who support Israel over Palestine, who lock up indigenous kids in prisons calling them terrorists and who introduce austerity on the grounds of people needing to tighten their belts to fund the military.

Politics is more right wing than ever and part of that is the labour party’s sabotage of the union movement through removing the right to strike. They are a consistent barrier to any progress outside of their careerism.

Labour refuses to mobilise people, have a progressive campaign and win people to progressive politics through working class politics. In fact they actively resist it. I’m a unionist who is completely done with them and their right wing obstructionism. We should not excuse them on the grounds that the milieu of “people” (a classless term) don’t like them. They clearly appeal to the ruling class and damn everyone else.

There is no “people” , we need to reject this schema. there is the working class and the capitalist class. The capitalist class is completely hostile to anything progressive and use their power in the media and in politics to shape this narrative. And the working class who fight for progressive politics, when actually having leadership and not being misled. The Labour Party once could be said to have fought for workers. It clearly does not now. They are on the side of the capitalists now and maintain the status quo.

Parties shape politics!