Odible olid opposition...

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'Unherd' but loud and clear. "Why the Labour Left is doomed", "The disaster of 1983 looms large in the party's psyche" by David Kogan at Unherd. We live in hope...

Fusilamiento en la Sierra Maestra [Link]

The generation of young activists of the 1970s and 1980s – Corbyn, McDonnell, McCluskey and Jon Lansman – all earned their political stripes fighting the Right of the party. Lansman had been in the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy and the campaign to elect Tony Benn deputy leader in 1981; Corbyn had been a trade union official in London during the winter of discontent in 1978-9. McDonnell had been deputy leader and Finance Chair of the Great London Council from 1981. McCluskey had been in Liverpool associated with the Militant Tendency that ran the Labour Party and council in the early 1980s.

That paragraph alone, should send shivers down the spine of anyone of a certain age with a brain. With any luck the current incarnation - McDonnell and Lansmans' Momentum - will die a grissly death; very soon. The 'freakish', lucky, 'quirk', last second, near-miss, chance to lift a inept, snide, political nobody to leader of the opposition by other political nobodies is quite a tale. Landsman of course, the danger man: never go full wierdy-beardy, especially when trying to excuse blatant antisemitism. Sinister. Evil. Maggots.