God, this 'on the one hand this, on the other hand that' equivocation from some Labour MPs. Shocking. Look, your party has been occupied at the top by people who hate it. /THREAD
They hate its grassroots trade unionism (which is why they have to stitch up its elections). They hate its liberalism, and all those Liberal MPs who helped to make it in the interwar.
They hate its Methodism. They hate its Christian socialism. They hate its debt to Catholic Social Teaching. They hate its outward-looking pluralism. They hate its commitment to the common corps of Europeanism.
They hate its concept of fun and sociability. So they hate Crosland. They hate its commitment to the Atlantic Alliance. So they hate Attlee. They hate its commitment to free trade. So they hate Keynes - and Wilson and Callaghan, who rescued that commitment.
You have this one chance to say what you think of them and their philosophy, alien to socialism as it is. And you're throwing it away. Unbelievable. /END
