Bastani is a chancer. But if we allow him to poison the well, to create disagreement on the Left where there should be none, that's also on us.
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Replying to @JolyonMaugham @WasiqUK
You are a trustee for a conservative think tank who has unrelentingly attacked Labour, the left and Corbyn for two years. I had to double check this wasn’t a parody account.
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Replying to @AaronBastani @WasiqUK
I am not a trustee, I have not attacked the Left, and my opposition to Corbyn date to when he challenged for leader (almost four years ago). So, entirely characteristically, you are pretty much wrong on everything.
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Jo - I have no issue with you opposing Corbyn back then. He was a leap in the dark. But haven't you at least been surprised by his effect on Labour: transforming its membership, resources, ability to mobilise - and most of all, its electoral power?
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Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and
And you must - surely! - understand the factors which led to his election and his popularity on the left since? You must've reflected on it. You can't possibly be unaware.
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Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and
You mean the textbook entryism of “registered supporters”?
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Replying to @JXB101 @JolyonMaugham and
I mean the largest mass movement in Western Europe. Described by people who wouldn't recognise injustice if it slapped them around the face as a "cult".
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Replying to @shaunjlawson @JolyonMaugham and
Write back when you can get 700,000 on the streets of London.
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Write back when that 700,000 fork out £12 a year & join the Lib Dems
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Replying to @hazelhurst @shaunjlawson and
Why would Tory or Lab Remainers join the Lib Dem’s?
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Replying to @JXB101 @shaunjlawson and
Due to their enormous commitment to a PV. Almost as though their allegiance is not particularly all that strong after all.
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