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How am I spinning it? Next you'll accuse me of being a Blairite, that seems to be what the Corbynites do.
It doesn't really matter whether it was Corbyn or Jo Sharp (but re: citation needed, do some reading on the campaign). The point is that managing to win back a seat in Bradford in what should be Labour heartlands is not going to win the general election. To do that you need to be winning seats - and hearts and minds - in middle England and the South East.
Yes, any swing leftwards is encouraging, but celebrating small local successes when the national polling is saying that Labour are behind - despite the Tories dragging us into the biggest political and economic crisis since WWII - is ridiculous. Proper fiddling while Rome burns stuff.
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Who cares what you are - Blairite or Corbynista or snowflake. What you did was give credit to a local candidate for the strength of the results (which may be entirely fair) while pointing out the weakness of the Labour Party for the strength of the right in their "heartland" (despite doing better than they did previously). That is either nonsensical or spinning.
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Yes, any swing leftwards is encouraging, but celebrating small local successes when the national polling is saying that Labour are behind - despite the Tories dragging us into the biggest political and economic crisis since WWII - is ridiculous. Proper fiddling while Rome burns stuff.
I think this is a reasonable comment but can you see how polling is disbelieved/brushed aside when all actual results so far contradict it?
Dramatic_Hammer
However you spin this, it's a swing back to the left and another win for the 'unelectables'.