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Let’s be brutal. #TIG happened because Tory ERG and Labour left both overplayed weak mandates, to shift their parties to their position. They succeeded, but left a football-stadium-sized hole in the middle that begged to be filled. It’s being filled. This is on you. Deal with it.
And I say this as someone from the very left of Labour, incidentally, who for years BEGGED “don’t overreach; find compromise”. Because anyone with half a brain could see his coming.
That’s the lesson, for both left and right. If you set out to “purify” your party, you must accept that the “pure” version will be a smaller version. Physics, innit.
