The perfect fumble
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And if the right of the party hadn't sabotaged punishment of antisemites?
Labour aren't winning anything any time soon, the in-fighting will see to that regardless of how anything else goes.
You're right about Labour not winning anything any time soon, but you're wrong about in-fighting.
The Blair/Brown years were not riven with ideological in-fighting, they were dominated by political in-fighting, driven by two men's political ambitions. In a quest for power, the Blair and Brown camp slugged it out for ten years, but ideologically there was barely a fag papers difference between them. For the most part the left were merely bystanders, even opposition to the Iraq war wasn't led by them.
Then Brown lost the election.
Under Ed miliband the Blairites/Brownites went on strike and then to open revolt under Corbyn, but they won't do that now. So Starmer is in a strong position, the right has his back and he has little to fear from the left, despite what our resident knee jerkers might say.
The Labour left is considerably more compliant than our right wing bull shitters let on, they've learned over many years to eat copious amounts of shit under establishment figure leaders. Of course the left will try to prevent Starmer from rolling back on all the promises he made during the leadership election, but if he's good for 25% of what he promised they'll be happy enough.
Perversely, Starmer got my vote because I think he was lying through his teeth during the leadership hustings, I'm banking on him ditching a whole chunk of that nonsense.
Rebecca Long-Bailey didn't get my vote because she really meant it, plus the fact she had all the gravitas of wet toilet paper.
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