In setting the scene for your editorial on Labour (7 November) you perpetuate a narrow assessment of the Corbyn phenomenon: “Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign energised enthusiastic young supporters with the promise of a current type of politics. In truth,also energised was a wide range of people of all ages, members and ex-members, and non-members,supporters and ex-supporters (unregistered), all despairing of what the party had become under Tony Blair, and crucially over Iraq.
A band of malcontents in the parliamentary Labour party,notably those who refused to serve under Corbyn and who abstained on the tax-credits vote, have a hatred of Corbyn that trumps defence of some of the poorest working people, and they should be ashamed of themselves. But these moderates” are feted and their apocalyptic electoral predictions enthusiastically aired.
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Source: theguardian.com