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There seems to be no shortage of people in this very thread who seem all too ready to overlook the impact and eventual fallout of austerity on some of the most vulnerable parts of society, if only for a few crumbs of validation from the architects of this shitshow, which is disappointing.
I don't think that this is true.
Austerity is bad, no doubt, and those who inflicted it on the poorest and most vulnerable must own the choices that they made.
I can, and do, condemn said choices.
That does not mean that I cannot support the choices that they make when I believe that they are positive - a stopped clock is correct twice per day.
For e.g. applauding Grieve when he supports a choice on, and potentially a beneficial resolution to Brexit does not mean that one is also validating his voting record on austerity, or indeed any other issue.
By the same token condemning Corbyn for his stance on Brexit does not mean that one condemns his stance on for e.g. people paying their taxes.
To insist that people cannot make a correct, good or beneficial choice because they have previously made a poor one is to condemn most, if not all of us.
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fair enough, fwiw, i'm generally referring to the sort of neoliberal welfare reformers exemplified by cameron, osborne and their enablers in the wider conservative party and the lib dems. hell, you can chucka fair few Labour culprits on that pile as well.
There seems to be no shortage of people in this very thread who seem all too ready to overlook the impact and eventual fallout of austerity on some of the most vulnerable parts of society, if only for a few crumbs of validation from the architects of this shitshow, which is disappointing.
Of course i am conflating "centrism" with "neoliberalism", which isn't really that much of a stretch, at least not from where i'm sat. Seems the neolibz are more concerned with tackling the direction of brexit rather than accepting their role in how we got here in the first place.