Is Freedland one of the worst journalists of all time? Exhibit 1:
"How can these MPs ignore the will of the party members? The answer is simple. The rebel MPs and their backers don’t consider hardcore Corbyn supporters to be Labour people at all. They believe they are no more Labour than the entryists of Militant a generation ago. They are the hard left, who have always lurked on the fringes of British politics but who have now taken up residence in the Labour home. They are squatters, who in the last year have taken to telling the longterm, rightful owners of the Labour building how things should be run – even having the nerve to tell people who have lived there for 50 years that they no longer belong in their own house."
Goes seamlessly from talking about the views of the rebel MPs to effectively asserting these views as fact, and then making crazy assertions which are the diametric opposite of the historical truth ("longterm, rightful owners of the Labour building"? Like, longterm since 1994?). Abysmal from any standpoint, and whatever you believe.
PS Apparently joining a union costs way less than that £25, and it's in black and white that a vote in the leadership eleciton is guaranteed to union members. No doubt this 'loophole' will be challenged