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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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I don't think it's really nonsensical to say they are doing better in Bradford but still not well enough, is it?
Isn't it a bit like the Newcastle referendum result (that was remain but by a smaller margin than expected and proved an indicator of wider failure)?
That's why I'm not sure it's anything to celebrate. God knows I'd love to have some good news right now with everything that's going on but I'm really not convinced this a sign of potential wider electoral success for Corbyn.
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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.