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10. Momentum have had to fight a defensive campaign simply to keep Corbyn in the job

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And they have been joined by the overwhelming majority of the party in having to fight it.

That is naturally going to take up all of their time and energy at the present.

They have no alternative but to do so.

If Corbyn were deposed, all radicalism and all idealism would be banished from the party(and if they are expelled, there won't be any left factions in Labour that aren't powerless and irrelevant. There would just be Tribune, and Tribune will never have any real say in what Labour stands for). Therefore, Momentum had only two options: fight to stop Corbyn's ouster, or give up on working for socialism for the rest of their lives.

If the PLP had simply done the democratic thing and said "Ok, we didn't want this guy, but most of the party does, so we'll rally 'round him and unite the party for victory", Momentum(a group that has never deserved the treatment the anti-Corbynites mete out to it, since it is made up mainly of good, decent people of all ages who are working to change life for the better and it is truly weird to act as if there is something unhealthy and illegitimate in doing that)would have been able to spend the last year organising a strong grassroots movement for victory. Instead, they have had to battle just to keep Labour from showing them the door. The LibDems in your area haven't faced any hurdles remotely comparable to that(and it wouldn't surprise me if some Labour right types aren't secretly helping them in the name of making Corbyn look bad.

The most absurd thing is, if Owen were chosen as leader, he would not only instantly move to expel Momentum and scrap Corbyn's revival of internal party democracy(something that has to happen if Labour is ever to make a comeback, for without internal democracy Labour will never again offer the voters a compelling program for change)he would then, after not only doing that AND making sure the party manifesto is sectarian Blairite, DEMAND that everyone on the left vote Labour "to get the Tories out". What he doesn't realize is that he will have no right to demand that, and the Tories will be guaranteed a landslide because of how hollow his plea will ring.