I find the whole Labour conference thing rather depressing. I find Jeremy Corbyn deeply depressing. But as we know, his job now is to try and unite his party. Which is deeeeeeply divided. Grand Canyon kind of divided. So whilst Jerkoff Jezza and Malicious McDonnell were up there singing ‘the red flag’ (swallowing back bits of vomit here), Tom Watson was trying to moderate things.

Tom’s a heavyweight. In every sense. He’s the deputy leader, put there specifically because he’s not a loony-lefty but the ‘acceptable face’ of ‘New Labour’. A Blairite in lefty clothing. Not the full ‘geography teacher’ elbow-patches-on-tweed, but he tries to placate those members of his party who aren’t rabidly Stalinist in their views. Mainly because they see it as being unelectable. So bung in Tommy W and you have the ‘dream ticket’; Jezza’s insane leftism moderated by Tom’s more pragmatic, business-friendly, mildly capitalist-friendly Blairism. That should work.

Sadly it doesn’t. The conference became a Momentum-driven hate-fest of the free market economy.

Watson’s speech stated that ‘capitalism is not the enemy; money’s not the problem; business isn’t bad’. And that pissed off everybody there. Especially Len McLuskey, leader of the Unite union and strong contender for ‘most hateful person of all time’ award. Len said that Watson’s speech had ‘no vision’ and showed ‘ideas of yesteryear’. A good criticism from a man representing a group based loosely on a satirical sit-com from 1972. The ‘Citizen Smith’ model, which indeed included the Red Flag as its theme tune, showed the true face of ‘anarchy’ against capitalism.

So they want to ‘out’ Tom Watson. They should speak to the Daily Telegraph, set up a sting, that should do it.

And then Sam Allardyce can become the next deputy leader of the Labour Party. He’s ideally qualified. Big, ugly and northern. Perfect. Oh, and currently unemployed.

The Allardyce ‘thing’ is still irking me greatly. I’ve seen the videos, I’ve read the transcripts and still can’t find anything other than a man ‘bigging himself up’ a bit to impress people. He never DID anything. He said he could do lots. He took nothing. He asked for nothing, other than a fee for ‘advising’, and even then ‘subject to the ok from the FA’.

This was entrapment, it was a stupid, meaningless ‘sting’ which showed nothing. If the victim hadn’t been in a very high profile position it would have been a nothing more than a minor embarrassment. But because the FA are a pathetic, testicle-free bunch of half-wits, they only make BIG, IMPORTANT decisions when they’re either wrong or meaningless.

They fly red flags at Arsenal.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx