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Ken Burch

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7. It's not as though the only options are permanent Blairism or defeat.

Fri Dec 4, 2015, 01:17 AM

Dec 2015

The first byelection result under Corbyn wasn't exactly a setback.

If you don't like Corbyn, you should try calling on the anti-Corbyn MPs to at least propose compromise with Corbyn's massive bloc of supporters. It's not possible to go back to the old days of Labour caring more about defeating leftists than about defeating Tories.

The Third Way is dead, and nobody wants it back. And if Labour had done what you wanted and whipped a vote for bombing, it would have meant that Labour could never have significantly disagreed with the Tories on anything else later.

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Here is the website for the new organization deriving from the Corbyn leadership campaign: [View all] Ken Burch Oct 2015 OP

Jeremy Corbyn denounces activists accused of threatening Labour MPs T_i_B Dec 2015 #1

a member are we Ken? Ironing Man Dec 2015 #2

Not a member...an admirer... Ken Burch Dec 2015 #3

They should call themselves "The campaign to ensure permanent Conservative government in the UK". Donald Ian Rankin Dec 2015 #4

It's not as though the only options are permanent Blairism or defeat. Ken Burch Dec 2015 #7

Of course, a more cynical man than I might suggest that that was precisely the aim of Blair non sociopath skin Dec 2015 #10

Somewhat related Denzil_DC Dec 2015 #5

Some of the disappointed are right-wing Labour MPs. Ken Burch Dec 2015 #6

Biggest disappointment is for UKIP, I think; they were hoping to do well LeftishBrit Dec 2015 #8

Hardly a ringing endorsement of the "New People's Party" non sociopath skin Dec 2015 #11

Wrong T_i_B Dec 2015 #9