Thread by @suey2y

In 2016, I banged on and on and on that if we didn't have a proper enquiry into the Corbyn coup then, it would come back to bite us.
And that's *exactly* what's happening now. The same people, taking those same levers, because we didn't act last time.

...had we properly faced the mess the Party was in then - or even sooner, under Ed, who tried to paper over the Brown/Blair chasms, we wouldn't have spent the last 6 years unable to focus on anything but ourselves.
2016 people played very very mean. Of course they would again.

We have to understand that they absolutely felt they were righteous. Fighting a just cause where any means justified the ends. They were "saving their Party", against the evil of us. For them, the world is going back to a normal they believe v very fiercely in.

Unfortunately, for 15 years now, when they've got it, they haven't known what to do with it. And voters haven't wanted it. They stand very fiercely, but what for?

They believe they represent a silent but sensible majority, who will (somehow) surge to the polls like '97 again. But it's a TIG/ChangeUK fantasy. They read it in the Guardian, so it must be so. Doesn't seem to matter how often it proves NOT to be so, or how spectacularly.

I'm not sure a single one would accept they dragged Lab policy in the wrong direction by the sheer force of their will and depth of their pockets. Just a coup by other means. Or how devastatingly wrong they got Remain strategy etc.

Even the bias of the staunch Remainer writing this can't deny the total and utter clusterbomb Remain made of things.
(I'm not sure I'll ever get over the irony of Campbell et al thinking a Very Big March would work)
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The same group can say with a straight face "But we so nearly won" and in the same breath completely deny Corbyn "nearly won" in 2017 with almost completely the opposite Brexit strategy.
I wouldn't even care, but they have to get the *NEXT* strategy right. Denial wont help that.