I’ve written several articles on the Labour Party of the United Kingdom recently. I’ve written about how the party has declined in support leaving it with really only the Islamic bloc vote and the Metro-Left as reliable voting groups. I’ve also written about how Labour needs to change if it is be able to do the job it is supposed to do and be a credible alternative to the Tories., ask the awkward questions that need to be asked of the current Conservative Party government. Britons do not deserve to see the country slide into a situation where we have a one party elective dictatorship because Labour is laughable and the prospect of a Labour government is too horrible for many voters to contemplate.

I was pessimistic as to whether Labour would carry out the reforms that were needed to make the party not just electable again but also return the party to its roots of being the party of choice for the working classes of Britain. I have said that to do this Labour needs to purge itself of the Marxists and the damage that they have done with regards stuff like pushing for things like transgender self identification and identity politics and also take steps, very public and obvious ones, to stop itself from being seen, as the too often are, Britain’s de facto ‘Islam Party’.

Whilst the current Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t seem to want to touch the hot potato issue of Labour becoming the de facto ‘Islam Party’ in all but name, there does seem to be some welcome signs that he’s prepared to tackle the issue of the Marxists in Labour. According to press reports, including from The Guardian, Mr Starmer is preparing to back a purge of far Leftists and Marxists from the Labour Party. In particular he is targeting four named groups that between them contain over 1000 members of the Labour Party, many of whom contain supporters of the previous leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The Guardian said:

After 15 months of being party leader, Starmer is expected to support a proposal before the party’s governing body on Tuesday to proscribe four named groups.

The proposal, first reported in the Daily Mirror, has angered leftwing members who believe this may be part of a wider purge of the party.

Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee will be asked to proscribe Resist and Labour Against the Witchhunt, which claims antisemitism allegations were politically motivated, and Labour In Exile Network, which expressly welcomes expelled or suspended members.

Socialist Appeal, a group that describes itself as a Marxist voice of Labour and youth, would also become a banned group. Anyone found to be a member of any of these groups could be automatically expelled from the Labour party.

Of course such an action has upset the far Left who are going to protest outside Labour’s London headquarters and are promising a fightback at Conference. Some are claiming that Starmer is more interested in fighting Labour members than the Tories. Unfortunately for those who claim this, Labour cannot effectively fight the Tories without fighting and defeating the far Left in his own party. This is because the British have rarely voted for extremists. The Communists were never a mass appeal party even at the height of their popularity and even the very high profile extremists of the Right such as Sir Oswald Mosley, have been distinguished by the successive electoral kickings that they have received in general elections. Labour needs to rid itself of the Marxist extremists to even give themselves a chance of challenging the Tories.

Personally I’m surprised that the list of far Left groups that Sir Keir wants to purge is so short especially as Labour has been infiltrated significantly by Marxist groups and there are some MP’s such as John McDonnell the former Shadow Chancellor who are self confessed socialists who have praised Marxism as an ideology. Anyone who has taken the slightest bit of notice of the internal issues pertaining to the Labour Party will know that the four groups named above are not the only far left nutcases that have entered and gained influence in the Labour Party.

One group that I suspected would be on the list of groups to either be expelled totally or have members selectively removed from the Party is Jewish Voice for Labour. This is because even the briefest perusal of the JVL site uncovers not just a lot of Corbynism and sometimes unhinged anti-Israel commentary but also stuff that other groups have been put on the suspension list for, such as downplaying Labour’s problems with Marxist and Islam derived Jew hatred. I suspect that this group or its members have not been put on the expulsion list for reasons of political optics. It would not look good for the party which is heavily tainted by the matter of Jew hatred to be seen to be expelling a specifically Jewish group. However I suspect that the removal of the four groups named above might be only the start of Labour’s purge of those who are affecting the party’s electability. If Sir Keir is successful in getting rid of this first tranche of Marxists then he may feel that he can go after more groups. It is quite possible that JVL as an entity or selected members of this group might find themselves kicked out of the party at a later date if the current expulsions succeed in helping Labour climb out of the public opinion gutter which is where they are at present.

I’m not a Labour voter, I gave up on Labour years and years ago, but I also know the value of having an effective Loyal Opposition and the necessity of such a Loyal Opposition in the British political system. It does nobody any good, whether they are a Labour supporter or not to have one major party so completely dominant whilst the opposition is in such chaos and disarray. Dictatorships,whether elective or not are bad things and need to be resisted. It took hundreds of years for the British to curb the absolute power of monarchs and create the system where the people select those who will wield the power of the Crown. Such a system requires that there are two parties or groups that are equally competent in the eyes of voters to run the country. At present you have the Tories seen as competent and Labour seen as the mere practitioners of ‘student politics’ and not competent as a potential government.

Sir Keir’s purge of extremists is a good thing for Labour and for politics in the UK. Whether it goes far enough is another matter. He’s taken the first steps to get rid of the Marxist extremists which he needs to in order to improve Labour’s standing with the public but he shouldn’t leave it at that. He should go after all heavily Corbyn aligned or Corbyn adjacent groups like Momentum as well. The promoters of divisive identity politics also need to go as do the trans cult extremists who have pushed Labour towards the lunatic policy of gender self identification along with the Islamic extremists who have created a party within a party inside Labour. It remains to be seen whether Sir Keir has the balls to tackle these groups as heavily as he is tackling, or seeming to tackle, the extreme Left, but he needs to do this or Labour will continue to be seen as the party of loud and unrepresentative minorities rather than the majority of British workers.

At this point in time we don’t know how this is all going to end up. Will Sir Keir stamp his authority on the Labour Party and remove the elements that are making the party both unpalatable and unelectable or will there be a destructive civil war in Labour? We don’t know what could happen. This could even be the moment when Labour splits into two parties, one made up of the sensible centre Leftists and another made up of the Left and far Left. The next year or so in Labour is going to be interesting to any observer of the British political scene and when the fighting and machinations are over we might see a very different Labour Party one dominated not by the Left or by the return of the Blairites, but something else entirely.