Try researching spin doctor John McTernan's CV

10/8/2016

McTernan was a Blair back seat driver or spin doctor

Firstly, can I just say that you really need to research into John McTernan's CV.

He is the unsung hero behind a catalogue of national and international Labour disasters.

Starting with Blair of course but most heart breaking for me, contributing to the loss of Julia Gillard to the odious Paul Rudd and her subsequent retirement from Australian Politics.

Then he started writing for 'The Scotsman' right before we lost that entire nation in the last election.

That said why oh why is he trotted out to bleat on and try to harness the opinions of the current PLP.

Have they no opinion themselves, no original thought or as it appears backbone??

Thank Goodness he was soundly belittled by a Momentum guy Cllr Sam Tarry on channel 4 news.

McTernan was trying to defend Tom Watson's earlier comments on us being Trotsky entryists manipulating true labour supporters.

Again where was Watson himself???

But 'underneath' the headlines of infiltration was something much darker that barely got a second mention.

TW stated that he would also be in favour of this PLP being endowed with MORE power to elect its own shadow cabinet???

McTernan went on to say, presumably as TOm Watson's spokesperson, that Jeremy Corbyn could no longer be allowed to govern the way he had, allowing John McDonnell to be so dismissive and derisive of PLP.

HELL NO!!!

That would be rewarding them for treachery.

Are they drunk???

At least we have a glimpse of what they want and it's a non starter.

JMcD is our economic strategy every bit as much as JC is our leader.

It's 2 for 1 deal.

You buy one you get one free.

NON negotiable PLP.

What else you got??

And you haven't even had the wherewithal to ask direct but thru some Blairite never was let alone has been.

Shame on you!

You are losing credibility by the nano-second.

Thanks to Shoada Patrick

Related reading:
http://www.newtekjournalismukworld.com/british-political-scene/open-letter-to-tom-watson-labour-party-deputy-leader
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/07/john-mcternan-on-labour-leader-who-cares-about-the-grassroots/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07nm8nf/newsnight-08082016

4 Comments

Martyn Wood-Bevan

10/8/2016 08:22:32 am

Never seen such an odious, deluded man. Does being in Australia do this to a man? He is too like Lynton Crosby to be taken seriously, and seems to have his view and stick to it, come what may. He will try single-handedly to prevent any Paradigm shift and will end his days writing tabloid journalism for the Y
Torygraph. With him, Mandelson and Akehurst in the Labour Party I'm glad to be called a Momentum Corbynista.

Eileen

10/8/2016 04:39:22 pm

Just joined Momentum today so with you now Martyn.

To my mind McTurnip as at least one person I know calls him is vike. He is rolled out on TV again now but why? Is it to speak for the right of the Labour Party? Are they hiding behind him? When you look at his twitter tl he looks all Tory.

Sue Dockett

10/8/2016 11:30:26 am

By John McTernan
1:37PM GMT 01 Mar 2016
Comment
Party members – who’d have them? Not the Labour Party, for sure. Jeremy Corbyn is the living, breathing emblem of why you can actually have too much democratic involvement in a political party.
Indeed, party members are the wrong people to make most political decisions. It doesn’t matter that in a world of mass higher education and social media everyone has a view and a channel for publishing it. The fetishisation of participation has masked two fundamental facts about modern political parties: their membership, despite blips, is too small to be in any real sense representative of voters, and at the same time too large to be a proper, modern, professional organisation.

Eileen

10/8/2016 04:39:50 pm

Thanks Sue 👍

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