Thread by @tony_nog

Hard realities for @UKLabour
1) people will never vote *for* Corbyn in large numbers. They voted against May, they voted against #Brexit, but Corbyn's appeal is shrinking in Labour and non existent outside it

He is dragging Labour down, because he is essentially useless

https://twitter.com/rachshabi/status/1154732804179189760

@UKLabour 2) no one "fears" Corbyn. Moderate tories fear that a barely functional old Marxist and his shadowy handlers might accidentally get into power, but essentially his only purpose now is to be a bogeyman for those moderates, scaring them into accepting Johnson

@UKLabour 3) in the upcoming GE Farage & Johnson will quite happily form a pact.

Corbyn won't. He will block any attempt at a Remain alliance and absolutely will not "stand aside" in seats. He's so stubborn he won't even support anti Brexit motions from other parties

@UKLabour 4) Corbyn is a brexiter. He's always has been. He did not put his energy into the ref 3 years ago and he's sabotaged virtually every attempt to block #Brexit since

He is not principled or straightforward but took a decision 4 years ago to temporarily pretend to support the EU

@UKLabour 5) finally and most importantly, Corbyn's Labour will split the progressive vote. There'll be no pacts, just as there are no pacts involving Labour in Brecon, no standing aside.

Corbyn *will* put Farage/Johnson in power

@UKLabour 6) Labour campaigned in Richmond in 2017,and put Goldsmith back in. Labour campaigned to get Hooey back in.

Labour tribalism will allow the far right to gain power.

@UKLabour 7) these are the facts. Supporting Corbyn, or turning a blind eye to him and his inadequacies is an indulgence the country simply cannot afford. It ridks the UK and especially Labour voters.

@UKLabour 8) Blair, Brown, Miliband - any of these former leaders *would have won* the no confidence vote yesterday, because they would have prepared for it and had the intelligence & ability to push it through

Corbyn didn't even try.

@UKLabour 9) it's not even country before party, its party before Leader.

You have to leave and join an energetic progressive party, or Corbyn has to go, or the far right gets in. There are no other arguments

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