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He’s squandered the goodwill he generated in 2017 with his constant triangulation on Brexit, which has blown his supposed USP ie. his “integrity” by showing he’s just as shifty, self-serving and duplicitous as any other politician.
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He’s squandered the goodwill he generated in 2017 with his constant triangulation on Brexit, which has blown his supposed USP ie. his “integrity” by showing he’s just as shifty, self-serving and duplicitous as any other politician.
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He makes all kinds of pledges to reverse austerity while ignoring the fact that Brexit will make all these promises unfulfillable, instead going on about “jobs first Brexit” which is a contradiction in terms.
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He’s reneged on his pledge to put the membership in charge of policy by fudging the Brexit issue, showing that he’s only really in favour of the membership while they’re voting for him.
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He GENUINELY believes he’s never been wrong about anything.
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He dismisses instances of antisemitism by applying the “All Lives Matter” response (“We oppose racism in all its forms”). And while I don’t know if he himself is an antisemite, he’s never met one he didn’t like.
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(Oh and don’t bother pointing out his “lifelong anti-racism”; racism isn’t binary. You can oppose discrimination against most ethnicities while having a specific grudge against *one*)
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Most of all, he’s a patrician ideologue; I accept he genuinely wants to help the disadvantaged BUT he believes that the application of True Socialism is the only LEGITIMATE way to do this. If he has to choose between helping the poor and Socialism, he’ll choose Socialism.
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That’s why he’s doggedly pursuing Brexit, which he KNOWS will hurt the poor and disadvantaged most. He sees it as the route to True Socialism, and if the poor have to suffer to achieve this, it’s For Their Own Good.
And that’s fucked up.
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And that’s fucked up.
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