Pointless?
Just read Daniel Finkelsteins critique of the Manifesto here. He raises some interesting points, especially this one:
Meanwhile, I wonder and I wait. I wonder when Mr Blair is going to stop being bewildered and frustrated by this failure and begin living with its consequences. I wait for the penny to drop that his war on Iraq required Tory support in the Commons, despite him having one of the biggest majorities enjoyed by a progressive party. I wonder and I wait for him to understand that while he might feel that progressives should support his views and those of the Euston Manifesto, in practice they do not.
No, they do not and many of them never will. Finkelstein is wrong however, to deride the manifesto as a waste of time because of the pig headedness of (as the drinked soaked trots call it) the 'pseudo left'.
Do we want to 'save the left from itself' when the left we are referring to is in bed with Islamism and totalitarianism? Perhaps now is the time for a final parting of the ways. At least until those on the pseudo left realise their compromised position and admit their mistakes.
Not much chance of that though, is there? I think one of the best things the manifesto has done is to thrust the split on the left into the spotlight and lay bare the treachery and hypocrisy of the apologists for terrorism for all to see.
-posted by Adam
