Labour's Plea to Antiwar Voters. posted by Richard Seymour

I've been a bit busy all day, so I'm glad Meaders took the trouble to diss the shit out of this fucking idiocy from The Guardian. The Guardian pretends that only woolly middle class liberals care about the war, while Meaders points out that the working class object to murder as well - in fact, the biggest drop in Labour's support has been among manufacturing workers.

However, in what does Labour's appeal to us antiwar voters consist? Well:

Labour plans to win back voters disaffected by the Iraq war with a manifesto pledge for international action on HIV/Aids treatment, a treaty to control the arms trade and a timetable for phasing out export subsidies to the west's farmers.

Yeah, not good enough. I want to see some real grovelling here. Take your clothes off and bend over. That's right. Now, hold your butt-cheeks apart and show me your intestines. Tsch. Alright, come over here and stick your dick in this car's exhaust. Yep, hold it there for a while. Now, walk in a straight line along those discontinuous white lines in the middle of the road. Uh huh. Nice one. Hell, son, do a backflip.

Etc.

Labour's "plea"? You call some vague, watery commitments that allow a multitude of sins a "plea"? I call that contemptuous. I can imagine Blair and his advisers sitting around worrying about the antiwar votes, going "oh yah, let's just buy them off with some puny reforms, always worked in the past, yah". Must try harder.