The UK Labour Party is screwed. How could they be so stupid to hand power to £3 members? It'll be lost on the margins for a generation.
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Mind you, if my
#Brexit prediction is anything to go by - this now means that Labour will be in power for a generation!1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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I remember the Michael Foot debacle - this seems like an action replay. Very popular with rank and file. No chance of getting elected.
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The point of the Labour Party is to make things very slightly better for the those who most need things to be better.
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Confirmation bias has something to do with the phenomenon of the Left gravitating to the extreme. If you only mix with fellow travelers...
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if you dismiss your critics as racists, misogynists, fascists, then it's very easy to believe that all "decent" people, the majority,...
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will line up behind your political project, if only you can get your message out without the distortions of the capitalist media...
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and the nefarious influence of bourgeois revisionists within your own party. It's bollox, of course, but it's seductive bollox.
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Social media makes it worse, because - to borrow from Gordon Graham - it encourages the formation of pure confluences of influence.
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You really can shut yourself off from tendencies that might lead you to question your monopoly on moral righteousness & political wisdom.
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