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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I think he's turned a Party that would have crushed this shambles of a Government into one that could well itself be crushed when the Remain votes that went to it in 2017 desert it. But I also think he is a populist with little to offer in policy terms. And a dangerous ideologue.
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When would that party have 'crushed' this government? You do realise that party was bankrupt and looked stuffed from all directions after the 2015 election? And that it then increased its share of the vote by more than at any time since 1945? Also - what is 'dangerous' about him?
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What is more dangerous than slaughtering Iraqis, which the kind of people you'd prefer led Labour did but Corbyn opposed? What is more dangerous than Windrush, which happened because all bar a handful of MPs (Corbyn among them) let the immigration bill through?
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And what is more dangerous than Yvette Cooper - many people's idea of who'd be leading a 'normal' (read: watered down) Labour helping mastermind the Work Capability Assessment and Atos? You'll surely know how many people have died as a result?
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Dangerous? It's our government that's dangerous: lethally so to countless numbers. Corbyn's not dangerous. He's right.
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As you're a seriously smart chap, you also know as well as I do that FPTP leaves Labour caught between a rock and a hard place on Brexit. You keep talking about the Remainers they'll lose (no sign of it yet) - but the working class Leavers who Corbyn won back? What about them?
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When someone who was right about most important issues of our age - Iraq and austerity - is never more at home than among normal, ordinary people, and spends his spare time tending to his allotment and making jam is described as 'dangerous', we are through the looking glass.
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You say that like they're positions not then held by millions or tens of millions. I wrote about how austerity was an ideological choice. I opposed the war on Iraq.
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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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You mean the textbook entryism of “registered supporters”?
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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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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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Why would Tory or Lab Remainers join the Lib Dem’s?
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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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He is currently alienating the ground swell support he saw - my three millennial children became interested in politics and later saw labour as the natural home for remainders who wanted to stop brexit. Now they are calling JC Labour very disappointing and are disengaged again
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I understand that. Genuinely. But life in opposition is often like that. I bet they change their minds when the next GE campaign happens.
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