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The level of support for the Canary is very minimal and consequently it's not right to argue that they hold significant influence over anything the party does, nor to take them as representative of the left more widely.
If it was Momentum coming out in support of Chris Williamson then fair enough, but I think @ReekBlefs needs to get over their obsession with these marginal outfits. Go to your local CLP and i can guarantee members who define themselves as being on the left will be (albeit potentially reluctantly) putting in groundwork 'to get Labour elected'
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Fair enough (TBH i have no idea how popular the canary is). Is anyone saying it is representative of the whole of the left though, or that it has significant influence - the original post just seemed to be saying it was continuing with factional fighting, and that was unhelpful. Is that not true?
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I think @ReekBlefs needs to get over their obsession with these marginal outfits
With love, these 'marginal outfits' were up until recently the faction who were running the Labour Party. You'll get no argument from me that these people are kooks, but they're also the people who can largely be blamed for Corbyn's failures over the last five years - the only difference between then and now is that now they no longer have the ear of the leadership. Do you think Corbyn would've openly defended Chris Williamson in 2019 (supposedly after Corbyn had sorted the antisemitism issue out) without receiving his advice Jewish Voice For Labour? That's who this is.
The people in my local CLP spend more time scheming to get my MP deselected than putting in groundwork to get Labour elected - a loophole only recently closed by Starmer's Labour. They remind me of the people in this thread who only post in order to put the boot into Starmer. And Christ, I get that - I've been bitterly disappointed by Starmer's failure to set the narrative. But until he makes a fuckup on the scale of Corbyn's response to antisemitism, or Brexit, or what have you, that kind of talk is utterly unjustified. Starmer is underwhelming. He has not led us to being found guilty of discrimination against our Jewish allies.
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ReekBlefs
Doesn’t this line of logic just allow you to always ignore anything anyone but Starmer does, though?
Which TBF is consistent with your posts on this topic