Reassessing Corbynism: success, contradictions and a difficult path ahead

[Ken Burch]

26. You seem not to have noticed that Denmark now has a right-wing, anti-immigrant government

And that it's "social democratic" predecessors had been making massive cuts in benefits for years before that right-wing government came to power.

If social democracy doesn't, at the very least, mean a guarantee of no lost ground for the most vulnerable, if it no longer means the poor will be safe from further increases in hardship, social democracy can no longer mean anything at all. It can't be social democracy to say "it's enough that it is US making the cuts".

It was not understanding that that guaranteed Calllaghan's defeat in 1979. Callaghan and Healey had spent three years before that making cuts almost as deep as the cuts Thatcher would make in her first term, all due to an IMF loan Healey later admitted the UK never needed.

If you send the message to your base that you will no longer protect them from social harm, you forfeit the right to ask that base to bother voting to keep you in power.