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The privileged union bureaucracy at Unite should stop obsessing about my journalism and start obsessing about members jobs being lost due to Brexit... I didn't see #Marr but I hear yet another attack on me by a well-paid union official for writing this: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
One reason the Unite bureaucracy is so pissed off with me is that my job is to write the truth. The truth is two key officials around Corbyn have more influence on policy than the entire shadow Cabinet and they got it badly wrong: their strategy lost us the European election....
The Times attack on Corbyn's health is of course bullshit. The allegation that officials refused to implement a Shadow Cabinet decision to leave the talks is true. Now to the substance...
The substance is that Labour is about to change its policy to Remain plus a second referendum. That's why British Stalinism - which destroys everything it ever touches - is enraged. Lexit is dead. But...
The rearguard action against Labour members' democratic wishes by a small group of party officials and union bureaucrats is damaging Labour's reputation with the electorate. We have a few weeks to stop the four-party fragmentation of English politics...
The key is to stop ignoring the polling evidence, put professionals in charge of strategy (as per Sanders and Warren), forget Lexit and start talking to working class people in the language of progressive ideals....
I've fought Stalinism and the privileged union bureaucracy my entire political life. My advice to fellow Labour activists - above all other members of the left journalism precariat is: do not fear their vilification tactics ... their world is over. Learn from comrade Brecht... 
