Labour Leadership 2016

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andyp

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/must-corbyn-win/

This is the most telling part in my view;

"Smith needs to emphasise the poverty of Corbyn’s ambition. He needs to ask Labour members whether their hatred of the Tories is just an affectation; whether they want to change the government or shout on Twitter."

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christianSpaceman in reply to @andyp

This is linked in the article you read, I'd not come across it before - it's long but very good (and quite damning):

https://www.byline.com/column/11/article/1177#

This in particular resounds with some of my thoughts on the direction of the party at the minute:

If social change from the grassroots is the key and mass movement is the model, why take Labour - an entity altogether different, concerned explicitly with making a difference by being government - and try to forcibly shape it into something else, Why wouldn't you start from scratch with, for instance, Momentum? I tend to agree with Helen Lewis's suggested asnwer: "because it’s easier to hijack something that already exists than build something new from scratch".

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