Letter to all Labour Members
“As Clem Attlee’s great niece and great nephew we would like to strongly endorse the continued leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
Under our great uncle as Prime Minister, the Labour Government enabled the creation of the Welfare State, inaugurated the National Health Service, implemented a major council housing building programme and achieved full employment, increased living standards and economic growth. This was done at a time of economic debt
which makes any recent debt pale into insignificance. We applaud the success of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell at exposing the economic fallacy behind the doctrine of Austerity and setting both the national agenda and the course of Labour Party away from this failed economic model into one that invests both in the economic future and in all the people of this country, with no-one left behind.
We urge all members and MPs to vote for and rally around Jeremy Corbyn so that the Labour Party, under his leadership, can present the alternative government approach that is so desparately required for the economy of the United Kingdom and the wellbeing of its people. The Attlee Government demonstrated emphatically that this can be achieved and we urge the party to place their confidence in a strategy rooted in this most successful and ground breaking era of Labour government history but recalibrated for the 21st century.”
Cath Attlee and John DW Macdonald
dainagregory
August 9, 2016
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Julie Dawn
August 9, 2016
No better endorsement! Thank you.
Patrick Kavanagh
August 9, 2016
I wholeheartedly agree with your statement and have for many years been disalussioned with the brand of “back-slapping” self effacing Politicians who, for so long, have all espoused the same economic policies with little to choose between the policies of Labour and Conservative’s and too much of the same old same. Not without good reason is Mrs Thatcher’s protege known as “Tory Blair” and, to add insult and dismay to all those people who looked to the Labour Party to rescue them from abject and relative poverty, only to see Blair and Brown scurrying, with indecent haste, to bow with bended knee before Mrs Thatcher! I have not voted Labour for many years now because of the lack of honesty, integrity and moral fortitude I expect from our political leaders but now, in Jeremy Corbyn, I find a man who has renewed my belief, that a more equal and just society is possible and achievable.
freethinkeruk
August 9, 2016
A lovely endorsement.
Taina Kaarla
August 9, 2016
Admirable suggestion. I agree with the Atlees. Do take their interest and concern to heart!
Dr Joanne Smith Finley
August 9, 2016
Probably the strongest endorsement yet of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour. Thank you for your faith, optimism, good sense, and empathy with the 99%.
johndwm
August 10, 2016
What a lovely thing to say I am so pleased that you put such a value on our statement which I drafted and Cath much improved . Anything you want to do to spread it around the place and amplify its promotion will of course be MOST welcome Joanne. Bless you and thank you!
Marie Meaden
August 9, 2016
Despite the slings and arrows directed at him, Jeremy Corbyn maintains his quiet dignity. His cause is right and honest. We The Labour Party are proud to have him as our Leader!
thisanimation
August 9, 2016
Jeremy Corbyn will be our next Prime Minister. This work must continue for the good of all – not just in the UK but everywhere. Thank you for your letter.
Maureen Sharkey
August 10, 2016
I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for your loyal support.
Robin Scott
August 11, 2016
Clement Attlee was one of our greatest reforming Prime Ministers, as well as an honourable war leader. As his proud descendants, you do the modern Labour Party a great service by invoking his spirit to endorse and support Jeremy Corbyn, as I’m sure Clem would have done too. The fact that Jeremy revives the spirit of Attlee and his brand of caring socialism is one of his great strengths, and our hope for the future of this great nation.
Dave Shulkind
August 11, 2016
John, I don’t know how you can compare Corbyn to your great Uncle. There really is no comparison whatsoever! ! Apart from maybe Corbyn is still living in the Attlee times. If Corbyn wins the election, you will not recognise the Party in a few months.I dread to think what he and Mcdonnell will come up with. I think they will put an end to the leader being challenged and bring in a fixed term of at least 5 years. Maybe longeras they used to do in the Soviet Union. Corbyn is no way a leader,never has been, never will be. If his own MPs have no confidence in him, why would the whole of the country????? He also is trying to take credit for Labour victories, either in Parliament, or in Elections that he had nothing to do with. So, if he wins we are leaving the Party with sadness and great regret that some of its members elected a leader who hasn’t got a clue.Hope you are both well and have a great time in China.
johndwm
August 12, 2016
here seem to be two worlds out there Dave. One of thousands of people who recognise an honest politician who speaks their minnds and another which you and some other friends of mine believe in the real world of politics like that led to the middle East being completely tuned into an unstable blood bath the NHS being destroyed and turned into a dysfunbctional quagmire and zoro hour contracts and multiple deaths and suicides by welfare cuts while the big companies scoop up more and more profits. The only difference between Attlee and Corbyn economics is the violent organised charbang move to the right over the last forty years which makes sensible policies seem radical and endorse a very pernicious status quo. As for Labour electability Austerity Light hasnt got a chance. corbyn honesty has a lot more chance but its pretty difficult if you are attacked by yiu rown side vituperatively from the beginning. My personal view is there shoukld be a very temp alliance of everyone who wants proper PR to get it through parliament. In Caolition Labour can fight for its own values then not Tory lite ones.
cbmilne33
August 12, 2016
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rotzeichen
August 12, 2016
Thank you for standing up for the many and not the few, I continually refer to the achievements of that Attlee government; which changed the lives of so many and held sway to a political consensus for twenty years, which then reverted back to disaster capitalism and the impoverishment of a nation not seen since the 1920s.
johndwm
August 12, 2016
you got it in a nutshell!