One of my favorite writes maintains the InterventionsWatch blog and also contributes regularly to the Media Lens Message Board

He is  a guy named Peter from the UK who obviously has a day job but puts 90% of professional political writers to shame.

Anyway, somebody weighed in on tomorrow’s election in the UK with the following comment defending Russell Brand’s decision to very uncritically endorse the Labour party:

There is no other choice at moment. Does anyone with any sense of humanity want the Tories back? Those who posture with their ultra leftist gobbledygook are wreckers and doing a good job for the Tories.

Here is Peter’s reply, and please note the links he supplied:

And when Labour vote with the Tories on things like capping welfare spending and bombing Libya, while promising to actively discriminate against immigrants and cut child benefit, I suppose that’s just them demonstrating their opposition to austerity, permanent war and racism, their decency and humanity, in a very novel way?

And who knows, perhaps the real ‘wreckers’ are those who are going out and voting for a pro-austerity, pro-war, racist, neoliberal party – for that is what Labour unambiguously are – while ignoring and/or smearing the genuine alternatives.

(I personally wouldn’t say so, but you could make the case)

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