They're not all bad people. But they have a contempt for their opponents and for democracy that manifests itself as an ends-justify-means approach that would shock the most hardened Leninist. Yes, there are bullies on the left, and careerists. But it's not the same.
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What are those 'ends'? The achievement of minimal social reforms and the protection of their own career interests. In their own minds, they make no distinction between the two and they convince themselves that any threat to one is a threat to the other...
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Honestly I think 1 of the weaknesses of Corbynism was that too many of its early operatives had come from outside the Party and really didn't understand how ruthless and uncooperative the right could be in practice. I remember trying to convince Corbyn staffers early on of this.
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Not that there is necessarily anything they could have done. The right spent literally 20 years entrenching themselves and rooting out opposition. They suffered many setbacks and detours along the way. The idea that we could reverse the process any quicker was always naive.
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The left is still in a much stronger position now that it was 5 years ago and the fact that some report has come out that demonstrates stuff that loads of us always knew anyway doesn't change that one bit. It was always going to take at least a decade to really get anywhere.
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I also remember that ruthlessness in the Kinnock days.
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No one knows what their ‘ends’ are though. They pour scorn on every basic labour principle.
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Power and its retention.
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its a pity they aren't made to defend centrism especially economically this would actually be constructive to debate. Instead they're trapped in rationalising why the left can't/ won't work. Will they die out or is a permanent feature of parliament?
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I keep asking this lot for policies, one guy said it wasn't for him to define them but he still criticized the left. He seemed to have no idea what he actually believed just hated the left.
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