TUSC and the General Election
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I wonder how Jenny Sutton got that vote in Tottenham, is she well known up there? 3% is pretty well done.
That's up both in votes and percentage terms, from 1057 to 1324 and from 2.41 to 3.11%. She's SWP, so it looks as if they've got a bit of a mini power base in Tottenham. She was TUSC's second best result, after ex-Labour MP Dave Nellist in Coventry, with 1769 or 3.91%. All the others were under 1000 and 1.6%. In other words, in the same league as us despite their vote-catching reform programme (which, presumably, most people felt/knew wasn't deliverable any more than they thought socialism was feasible at the moment).
This was my way to the spgb. Contesting with a tusc/ spew activist why they restricted themselves to a limited programme of reforms which attract such a derisory vote, surely they could campaign for what they really believe and get no less votes. It was the confirmation that the limited reforms was what these people really stood for that convinced me that the SPGB was the only real game in town.
Latest news: SWP deserts the sinking TUSC ship:https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/uk-far-left-splits-swp-leaves-trade-unionist-and-socialist-coalition-tusc/#
Unlike in the 2015 general election, in this one TUSC will not be fielding any candidates but will be reverting to saying "Vote Labour":http://www.tusc.org.uk/17358/22-04-2017/tusc-chair-dave-nellist-welcomes-general-election-chance-to-drive-out-the-toriesIt's not so much Lenin's supporting Labour as a rope supports a hanged man, but more a parasite supporting the existence of a new potential host.
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