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In reply to the discussion: Thread for anyone to explain why Labour would do better under Owen Smith's leadership. [View all]If you stretch any more, you'll strain something!
That post wasn't intended to pick any sort of fight with you, BTW.
I'd more or less expected an agreeable response along the lines of "Yeah, the media's stupid, and policy differences aside, this is pathetic, no wonder people get turned off by what passes for political coverage nowadays."
As it is, trying to tortuously twist it into something that "does show Corbyn's team in a rather stupid light" seems to indicate that things have deteriorated in certain quarters beyond what even my fevered imagination envisaged as possible.
Oh, and this stupid non-story was the first headline on Radio 4's hourly news at 7 p.m., with no further information included beyond that in the initial wrong report.