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I think it's hard to remember how fractured how things were then. There were pro-EU Tory remainers. A progressive alliance between them, the libdems, greens, SNP and Labour remainers etc for a soft Brexit was possible. There were votes in the House of Commons about it iirc. At every juncture...

“Forensic” huh.

If he doesn’t get fined he will still be hounded about this. Johnson will never resign. This weird credulity about “fair play” is hilarious.

For better or worse Corbyn’s supporters made Labour the largest political party in Europe and their help with canvassing certainly seemed to me to have a positive effect in 2018. As Third says, the contradictions at the heart of this meant it couldn’t last. There will come a time when Labour...

Also there is nothing wrong with hating Starmer. Or Boris, or any of these wankers. My hope is that there is a lot more of that, in fact.

Well I’m not defending Corbyn really. I think building a movement is the right approach though. And now is the time for bold crazy ideas like free broadband and nationalising the energy companies. Building a movement and working towards a completely new world is a messy business though...

Given the intensity of the climate emergency, the rich/poor divide and a whole bunch of other issues that centrism is incapable of solving, I think the odd spectacular failure is OK really. Better to try out radical ideas and fail than wrap yourself in the comforting blanket of pandering to...

Not really but they did well in London. The Greens and Sinn Fein were the surprises for me.

Oh I dunno. Those White Rose stickers about manliness, anti-Semitic new world order stuff etc seems pretty fascist to me.

This is pretty wild - dunno much about the area? Interesting.

And Starmer has tried to assiduously court the press and be unthreatening for two years and it has got him nowhere judging by the headlines today.

Yeah the press in this country are massively in favour of the tories, go figure. But please also remember that "Red" Ed was castigated for the sins of his Father and for stabbing his more right wing (and less pro- trade union) brother in the back.

I agree with @version that "electability" as a concept is largely chucked about by the media. But it is also the preserve of our noble and wise centrists when trying to delegitimise conversations about socialism. That said, I think @wild greens is also correct in that the media is not the...

It is me, but not just me. It was very gratifying when someone had already scraped some of them off before I got there. :) A comrade writes: https://libcom.org/article/sticking-it-razorblades-and-anti-fascist-folklore-f-bear

Stamford Hill and Springfield wards stay Tory, so my phone charger did not unlock a secret pathway to the left.

Well where's the fun in that? Honestly! ;)

To give Starmer his due, he allegedly likes a takeaway curry, I’ll give him that.

But is precisely Starmer’s “electability” which was his selling point. So there must be something in it surely? Either there is a scale of electability or there isn’t?