Labour leadership result prediction thread.

[Ken Burch]

23. At most, there are 2,000 Trotskyites in the entire UK. They fight against each other

with more passion than they ever expend fighting capitalism.

During the Eighties, when Labour was furthest left, MOST of the Labour left despised the Trots. People whose politics was informed by Occupy have no use for them.

"Trots" aren't capable of taking over anything. And they can't destroy anything...other than themselves.

It's time for everyone to admit that it's ridiculous to imply that everybody who supports Corbyn is a Trot. Or that anything but a pathetically tiny sliver of the UK left ever was.

Corbynism(if we can call it that) is sincere, grassroots, democratic, and legitimate.

It's just that it threatens the section of the Labour old guard who think history ended in 1983 and that the party must never again deviate from sectarian Blairism.

Labour's losses in the Eighties were caused by the inability of the Labour Right to accept that the majority of the party had the right to disagree with its views-not by any of the actual policies the Left supported.