Mick Lynch: how to ruin your reputation with a single statement
Mick Lynch: after years of incisive, accurate commentary, he has blundered badly.
RMT trade union hero Mick Lynch has put his foot in his mouth in an extraordinary way.
Here’s what he’s said:
Mick Lynch says voters must ‘grow up’ and see Starmer is only alternative https://t.co/d6rcD37qYB
— Guardian news (@guardiannews) February 24, 2024
Voters don’t see it that way. They think, as Simon Maginn said in a response on ‘X’, that “changing one set of neoliberal austerians, NHS-profiteers and foreign-war-enthusiasts for another isn’t going to change anything that needs changing”.
That’ll be why others who are less prone to explanations have been as blunt as this:
As a Socialist how can Mick Lynch vote for a Party that is expelling Socialists,
Is preventing Socialists standing as MPs,
Is preventing existing Socialist MPs being re-selected,
Is renouncing Socialist policies,
Is distancing itself from Trade Unions
Supports Israel’s genocide— Phil Vanes (@phil_vanes) February 25, 2024
Yes he can. https://t.co/3bYrCQIq1F
— Class Consciousness Project (@Class_C_Project) February 25, 2024
Here’s the consensus view of everyone who has been paying attention since Keir Starmer took over as leader of what used to be called the Labour Party:
The Labour Party must be destroyed at the next election.
Everyone, and I mean everyone, that stands under a Labour banner deserves to lose. pic.twitter.com/sEtGqZ2VJy
— Daniel Fooks (@DanielFooksArt) February 24, 2024
And what’s this?
Mick Lynch says RMT will support Jeremy Corbyn if he stands as independent at electionhttps://t.co/lgLaVWVPUX
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) February 25, 2024
So Mick Lynch thinks Labour is the only way people should vote at the general election – but will support Jeremy Corbyn if he stands as an independent?
That will look like hypocrisy to many people – especially the Tory commentariat.
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