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Originally Posted by Damien
Starmer has kicked a lot of them out anyway, the ones that remain have no power base and are fractured themselves these days between the old SWP lot and the newer generation. Momentum is pretty much finished and the parts of the left-wing base that remain behind Corbyn have gone off to the Greens.
I think if Labour fail in Government it won't be because they try to go too left-wing.
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I tend to agree, and that’s what finally tipped me over the edge. (I mean that metaphorically - I was always going to have to hold my nose and vote for the Labour anyway, come what may, just to get the SNP out - now I can at least feel I’ve made a positive choice.)
Starmer sounds cautious to the point of timid at the moment and if that’s how he approaches governing he and Labour will fail. We are at a 1945 moment, where lots of people are willing to see a government do something different. He should heed the warning of 1950/51.