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UPDATE: 26th Serwotka banned – the PLP have really lost the plot. | Steve Bell nails it.

This comment from the Guardian, posted under Polly Toynbee’s latest epistle is worth reading, Especially the last paragraph. I’m reproducing it here in full along with the link.

[Polly Toynbee] – He made front-page FT news yesterday with his assault on “ludicrous” corporate pay, attacking Rupert Murdoch’s empire and telling bankers to wake up to Britain’s “gross inequalities”. Who disagrees with all of that? But if being right was all it took to win elections, the Tories wouldn’t be in power.

So you’re advocating being wrong?

Seriously, read your own work sometime. Ask yourself who’s really propping up Tories. By reducing the spectrum of debate you support the Narrative. By accepting the idea that no one can ever win on a platform which is anything other than corporate cronyism you help to make it so.

In the last election you told people to hold their nose and vote labour. On these pages just weeks ago you declared yourself to be to the left of Corbyn on all manner of issues. Yet here you are again, rubbishing the man for standing up for what you yourself purport to believe in.

At what point can you no long look yourself in the eye and claim to be an honestly lefty? At what point do you look in the mirror and realise that your whole life is built on neoliberalism and that for all the huffing and puffing you’ve done you don’t want change. You don’t want fair house prices, you don’t want fair taxation, you don’t want social mobility or equality or universal education or parity of opportunity, or to break up the Oxbridge set, or to end the hegemony of finance over politics?

Because you’ve done alright out of the way things have been. You’ve made a career out of proffering opinion from a position of extreme comfort. And anything offering genuine change away is a threat to your existence that you cannot countenance.

Because if Corbyn had no hope of winning you know you’d be out here supporting him right? You know you’d be chastising the others for not being as honest, or principled, or as right as him. If Corbyn was the tissue thin, lefty bandwagon everyone expected him to be, the Graun and everyone on staff would be smacking their lips at the pro Labour left opinion pieces they could write. But as soon as there’s a shred of chance that a man of principals could gain power, you all run for cover.

It’s pathetic.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/25/labour-race-corbyn-wins-britain-out-of-europe#comment-58137987

I posted this in view of the increasingly panic stricken measures being taken by Harman et al in fear of a victory by the man who will mean the end of New Labour. Having set up a democratic election they can’t bear the thought that a candidate popular with the electorate might win. That clearly wasn’t their intention at all. They want another Blairite.

Not forgetting this -> Examples of rejected voters (read the comments).

Jeremy Corbyn’s Plymouth visit written up.