andyfallsoff-
Care to explain? The left is far from blameless (in general), but the above is what I gleaned from the report. What strikes me most about the Labour right is that they don't seem to be able to offer any indication of what they actually want—they just seem to define themselves in terms of a diametric opposition to the left (and by the left, as stated in the report, they mean anyone to the left of Gordon Brown).
The counterfactual that Labour would have won the election in 2017 were it not for the actions of senior HQ staff seems to me to be implausible or at least doubtful, but this report nonetheless is very serious—not least for the manifest cruelty that these staffers demonstrate, and the influence that these unelected and ostensibly non-factional positions exert over electoral and (most significantly in this case) disciplinary processes.
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bens0n
Yep, you can't play the 'both sides' card here (or anywhere really to be honest). The report details that the dominant faction within Labour HQ operated a sustained campaign to undermine the party's democratically-elected leader, aiming to hinder any chances of electoral success and in the process grossly compromising the party's responses to instances of racism within party ranks. All in order to own the left.