That Corbyn fella...

Written from my phone, so apologies:

This is a rehash of his article that was posted a page or two ago. Which is a rehash of every other piece from the last two months. There is nothing I saw which is new. With one exception - he's trying to dismiss retorts that you can't judge Corbyn based on who he may have shared a platform with. That is, he's reviving the claim that Corbyn is a horrible human because other people who like him/support him/have spoken with him are. This isn't entirely new and he admits it. But he goes one step further: Corbyn is beyond salvation because of - not who he associates with, but - who associates with him. And then goes on to tell us who this people are (antisemitic, antisecular, misogynists).

There are a lot of problems with this argument. But they don't matter. It falls apart because it's hyperbole and moral righteousness. I agree with the principals he ended his piece on ("The causes I most care about — secularism, freedom of speech, universal human rights — are not their causes."). And these views are not inerrantly left wing (liberal, if anything, and very much shared by many Tories). The piece fails, in my opinion, because only a lunatic would assume they were not shared by others in labour. He's lost sight of reality in the clearly chaotic days post-Corbyn win.