Re: Tariq Ali

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, we should take note of the fact that Ali says he
> > would be delighted to see Tony Blair defeated in Britain.  I'm sure
> > that the British equivalent of the US Anybody But Bush/Nader crowd
> > are busy lining up support for the Labour Party on the grounds that
> > it's the lesser of two evils.
>
> My New Press editor, Colin Robinson, just told me that the UK
> political scene is even more depressing than the U.S. because there
> is absolutely no alternative to Blair, drawing an explicit contrast
> with Kerry v. Bush. Of course, Colin used to be an editor at Verso,
> and, like Tariq, might be suspected of that creeping NLR
> "liberalism."
>
> Doug

The UK and the US have some things in common as far as the electoral
system is concerned, the most obvious being the First Past the Post
method.  Therefore, I commend Tariq Ali for stating that he would be
delighted to see Tony Blair defeated, despite the pressure on him to
support the Labour Party.
--
Yoshie

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