‘The Morning Star’ goes a little way to explain the Stalinist bile, it’s about as edifying as Pif.
LOL ! I give you a big long spiel about how you don’t have agree with the editorial position of a newspaper to read it, and you automatically assume that I support the Morning Star because I read it ! Do you also assume that me and Stoner must therefore by default, support the Guardian’s editorial position because we read it every day ? As it happens, I do support the overwhelming majority of Morning Star’s editorials, as indeed would a substantial proportion of the population if they bothered reading it. And btw, I see absolutely to difference whatsoever between the Morning Star’s political position and that of Seumas Milne. Seumas Milne I’ll remind you BillMC, was your beloved Guardian’s Comment Editor from 2001 until 2007. My big sticking point with the Morning Star, and it’s a very big sticking point, is its unwavering support for the Labour Party. I will not, despite the Morning Star best effort to convince me otherwise, vote Labour. Apart from obviously, notable exceptions such as Ken Livingstone in the mayoral elections. The Morning Star’s position is based imo, on the outdated principle that the Labour Party is a social-democratic mass working class party. IMO it ceased to be that when the hard right seized control of the party. From 1995 until Nick Clegg took control of the LibDems, I supported the LibDems as the most viable social-democratic party which represented the best interests of ordinary working people. When the LibDems under Clegg abandoned social-democracy and embraced neo-liberalism, I ceased to support them. I voted Green last election, on the basis that their candidate was the only one on my ballot paper which stood for a social-democratic Keynesian alternative. So quite a big gulf between me and the Morning Star then. But nevertheless, I have massive respect for the Morning Star, and find most of their editorials absolute spot on. It is a completely non-sectarian newspaper (“Stalinist” LOL!) which regularly features articles from a whole range of political positions. This includes a great deal of articles from very prominent Labour Party politicians. And today’s Morning Star contained an article by the national policy coordinator of the Scottish Socialist Party – something which you are unlikely to read in the Guardian. It is in fact a “more progressive daily alternative” to the Guardian. But then I very much doubt that you read the Guardian because there is no “more progressive daily alternative” as you appear to suggest BillMC, you read it because it fits in nicely with your own personal views. As I said : I am absolutely certain that you are about as interested in reading the Morning Star, as you are in reading ‘a more progressive daily alternative’ – ie, not at all.
