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Who will replace Labour as the main "progressive" voice in parliament?


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    • The Liberal Democrats
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    • A Labour break-away party
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    • The SNP (a change of remit required there)
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    • UKIP (substantial change in policy platform required one would think)
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    • Another of the existing small parties
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    • A brand new party
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    • An Alliance of two or more of the above
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    • I remain hopeful that Labour will survive its current problems
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Even disgraced Tory Zac Goldsmith thinks #Dispatches was weak :hihi:

 

 

"#Dispatches was weak. It will only reinforce the view that the establishment wants to trash Corbyn. Suspect it'ill have the opposite effect"

 

 

 

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And Momentum's statement on the Dispatches programme:

 

 

If you click on the text, you can view the entire post.

 

 

So let me get this right.

Rather than trusting an independent source on the matter, we should assume that all independent media organisations are in a grand conspiracy against Corbyn and Momentum and therefore we should trust only the "truth" as told to us by Momentum themselves.

Don't forget to thank Momentum for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week.

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Reporting of Momentum has been biased and unfair

 

As has most of MM on Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party

 

Here's Owen Jones' take:

 

 

"No-one can call me an uncritical Corbynista. But I know Momentum's leaders + they're genuine, passionate people who just want social justice"

 

"Vilification of Momentum is not based in reality and is all about hunting down unrepresentative Trots who turn up to meetings to bore people"

 

 

 

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Reporting of Momentum has been biased and unfair

 

As has most of MM on Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party

 

Here's Owen Jones' take:

 

 

"No-one can call me an uncritical Corbynista. But I know Momentum's leaders + they're genuine, passionate people who just want social justice"

 

"Vilification of Momentum is not based in reality and is all about hunting down unrepresentative Trots who turn up to meetings to bore people"

 

 

 

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That's a yes then. You're telling us that we should reject all independent information, analysis and opinion on Momentum and instead just trust what they tell us themselves?

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Owen Jones also said this:

 

Owen Jones Reveals His Despair About Labour Party Under Jeremy Corbyn

‘Labour and the left teeter on the brink of disaster,’ writes key left-wing journalist

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/owen-jones-jeremy-corbyn-brink-disaster_uk_579e6b4ae4b0f42daa4a6944

 

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This is the best interview though:

 

Seven things from Jeremy Corbyn's Mumsnet chat

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37409187

 

"I'm totally anti-sugar on health grounds, so eat very few biscuits, but if forced to accept one, it's always a pleasure to have a shortbread."

 

Not everyone was impressed. "That's the most miserable response to the biscuit question I've ever read," wrote one user, GloGirl.

 

Others pointed to his reported hobby of making jam, asking how this fitted with his anti-sugar stance.

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Owen Jones' interview with Momentumers from earlier this year

 

Worth a watch :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What are you on about? You've found the most radical socialist commentator in the media and he's on your side. What does that mean?

All the independent sources are highly critical of Momentum. Don't you think that's significant?

Do you really think that a controlled interview where Momentum get to present themselves as they see fit is as revealing as a 6 month covert observation of them?

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