Labours Civil Wars: How Infighting Keeps the Left from Power and What Can Be Done about It Diamond Patrick
Labours Civil Wars: How Infighting Keeps the Left from Power and What Can Be Done about It Diamond Patrick A compelling chronicle of the Labour Party's perpetual internal divisions.The biblical adage…
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Labours Civil Wars: How Infighting Keeps the Left from Power and What Can Be Done about It Diamond Patrick
A compelling chronicle of the Labour Party's perpetual internal divisions.The biblical adage that "if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand" remains sound theological advice. When a party is riven with division, the public does not know what it stands for. It is also essential counsel for any political party that aspires to win elections.
The divide exposed by the Corbyn insurgency is only the most recent example in almost a century of destructive infighting. Though both major UK parties have been subject to internal conflict over the years, the Labour Party has been more prone to damaging splits. Indeed, it has often seemed as though Labour has been more adept at fighting itself than in defeating the Tory party.
This book examines the history of Labour's civil wars and the underlying causes of the party's schisms, from the first split of 1931,