re: Labour parties

[Philip Ferguson <plf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Gould writes:

> Phil Ferguson views things from a
> standpoint that I described as principled sectarianism,


Yeh, you said that a few weeks back.  But then, a little while later,
didn't you suggest I might be right about the NZ Labour Party?

My *suspicion* is that the DSP is right about the Aussie LP and that the
SP and others are right about Blair's party.  But the only LP I am
prepared to claim to be an expert on is the NZ beast.  It is certainly a
bourgeois-liberal party these days.  Even genuine social democrats in NZ
- eg the Alliance - probably regard it in this way.  The Alliance people
I know (and I know a fair few) don't seem to regard Labour as any kind
of workers' party any longer.

Phil

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