The Tory Right Favors Treason Over Reality Comment
ALAMY For decades, the year 1931 was spat at as an accusation at Labor conferences, used as a metaphor, repeated as a warning. This was the year Ramsay MacDonald, the first Labor Prime Minister, joined the Tories to form a national government. The year MacDonald was elected, Labor activists found him to be a traitor. After 1931, every Labor leader in turn was accused of being a new MacDonald, abandoning true socialism and becoming a “Tory”....