Labour leadership result prediction thread.

[Ken Burch]

26. Even if they ran that, so what? And is it a crime for an antiwar movement to be well-organized?

The Stop The War Coalition didn't do anything insidious. And it's not as though an activist campaign should have to be a chaotic shambles just to prove its sincerity.

What matters is that the overwhelming majority of Stop The War were nonsectarian people of democratic intent.

It would serve no purpose to set up an anti-Trot update of McCarthyism in UK politics.

Why is it so hard for some people to accept that Corbyn's victories are simply what they appear to be on the surface-a good, decent person winning by speaking the principled truth and embodying what the people he speaks to actually WANT?

Why don't the anti-Corbynites give at least some thought to engaging and actually trying to work WITH Corbyn's supporters? To accepting that it's a GOOD thing for new people to enter the party? Or, if nothing else, to trying to recruit new people who agree with THEM rather than trying to kick as many Corbynites out of the party?

And why do some people think Labour can only win if it is led by a dismissive, elitist, anti-left cynic like Yvette Cooper?

I have a lot of respect for Andy Burnham at the moment-he has concerns about Corbyn, but he chose not to be a wrecker?