John McDonnell is the best hope for Labour supporters, for a fast return to an honourable, decent, democratic, egalitarian and inclusive Labour Party. John McDonnell is the best candidate, and one of the very few potential leaders who can avoid a humiliating six or more years in the wilderness, consisting of in-fighting, bickering and destructive abrasion between New Labour factions/sects.
Get back to Labour basics, bring back the Labour party of real values, kick out the spin, the superficial policies of surfaces, the meaningless sound bites and more importantly, scrap notions such as "doing what the market wants, because".
In a democracy, the politicians should dictate policies to the market, not the other way around. This is what New Labour ignored. This is what a John McDonnell leadership will bring back to the party and to UK politics.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/19/ed-balls-john-mcdonnell-labour-leadership-contest
The Guardian
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