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his take on Corbyn and the new left here...
Posted with no affiliation to views/politics etc etc. Lah-di-da.
But he is a journalist I have always admired and if he has major concerns I will listen.
I am watching all of this with interest from the sidelines, I actually voted Whig at the GE much to the bafflement of everyone who knew. Corbyn, interests me as a fellow Republican, secularist and all round principled man.
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Posted with no affiliation to views/politics etc etc. Lah-di-da.
Word! My response was not meant to cause offense to you either. As I said to another article I quite disliked, I want to read them.
I am watching all of this with interest from the sidelines.
Me too - for the moment. But I'm tempted to signup. That's why I'm happy to see ideas thrown about (and why, in addition to procrastination, I'll spend my time engaging with them).
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.