Thread by @EdmundGriffiths

I'm not talking abt Big Names With Platforms, who can be assumed to have known what they were doing re Sir Keir; but the fact large numbers of left-leaning members got duped does I'm afraid say something abt what the organized left had been explaining to people & what it hadn't

To many people on the left, inside Labour & out, it was transparently clear that Sir K was the candidate of anti-Corbynist revenge & authoritarian Blairism; but many other people, also more or less on the left, couldn't see it at all

So you have to ask: did the first set of people do everything they could have, in 2015-19, to help the second set become sufficiently politically aware that they wouldn't be taken for a ride like that?

One point that could perhaps have been made more forcefully was: look at all these diabolical hard-right ghouls who can't get enough of Sir K. They don't want watered-down-continuity; so either they're drastically wrong about his politics or you are. And they know him personally

And it involves an understanding of what the Lab right is & how it thinks. I hate to blow my own trumpet (lol no I don't), but this is my attempt from 2017 at sketching how they see the world; you wouldn't from this predict unity + non-factional continuity
edmundgriffiths.com/modlab.html