You forgot to add in your opinion. Do you honestly think if Corbyn had won a General Election that he would've welcomed the views of all those who were further to the right than him?
If they were views widely shared within the party then I'd say yes. An example would be Trident renewal. We all know his personal position yet it was in both manifestos on his watch. The reason being it was a position carried at conference. If Starmer took a similar approach electoral reform would have been on the agenda.
So no the accusation that they operated in the same manner doesn't stand up to scrutiny. A reminder of McDonnell's words.
It is the absolute hollowing out of democracy in the Labour party, which enables a centralisation of power under a self-serving bureaucracy that is effectively out of control, operating with impunity.
And even though he didn't win a GE, there were plenty of stories flying around about Momentum's dubious tactics while he was leader. Maybe you were living on a different planet at the time and weren't aware of it:
MPs raise fresh questions about grassroots movement, which is separate from Labour, in wake of vote on Syria airstrikes
www.theguardian.com
Lol. More like an avalanche of 'stories', day in day out. As for "Momentum's dubious tactics", the article you cite and your interpretation of it is quite telling. You take at face value the accusations made by the likes of Neil Coyle (check out his record) that whatever push back these MP's received, whether legitimate or not, was all centrally organised by their factional opponents.
Again the point was about dissenters being silenced when the reality was anything but ... they could makeup any old shit and get a hearing.
Further to your point about dissenters, well no dissenters were silenced yesterday were they? In fact, they gained plenty of concessions ahead of the vote.
Sure but McDonnell was making a wider point, not exclusively, but largely about selection processes. Again the article you cite is quite informative. Contrast the horror of deselection under Corbyn, which didn't happen, with the total lack of curiosity shown to the numerous deselection processes under this regime. I mean there was a sitting metro mayor removed from a list of candidates for a newly created wider jurisdiction for the heinous crime of sharing a platform with Ken Loach. At least that was the official justification.
Again comparing MP's dissenting against throwing vulnerable people under the bus with MP's cry arsing about temporarily losing factional control is pretty disingenuous imo.
