>> Nonetheless, I thought it an interesting point about Labour being a barrier for 'The Left'.
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>> "Labour, as currently constituted, cannot win a majority. Its structures are too ungainly, its nostrums
>> too old, its activists too angry, its mood too sour. In Britain, as in any
>> country, there is a chunk of the electorate in the market for a Left-of-centre party.
>> But the language of picket lines is as foreign to that electorate as the language
>> of “defund the police”."
>>
>> This bit, for example. Isn't that exactly what is standing in the way and pretty
>> much what seems to be protecting Johnson?
Fair point. What's going on at the moment with Labour is a real turn off for me, a natural socialist.
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