Thread by @shaunjlawson

Aw, I so wish I still had the plot Art. I so wish I was like people who:

1. Thought Rebecca Long-Bailey would be a successful Labour leader

2. Complained angrily of 'PLP racism' when Dawn Butler struggled to get enough nominations, only to all pile in behind Richard Burgon

https://twitter.com/ArtCrunchy/status/1496618172866347013

3. All still act like it's 2017, not 2022

4. Some of whom think Jeremy Corbyn could magically have solved this crisis, like they think he also magically solved Northern Ireland

5. Insist there's only one reason for Labour's defeat in 2019, when there are very many

6. Insisted a London-based Remainer could never win back the Red Wall, yet he's winning back the Red Wall

7. Used a massive child abuse scandal to lie through their teeth and parrot far-right conspiracies about Keir Starmer, with zero regard for the victims' suffering whatsoever

8. Simultaneously hailed Corbyn for inspiring young people, then insist that all those young people should've been betrayed by Labour supporting Leave in 2019

9. Have zero respect for Ukrainian democracy, sovereignty or territorial integrity

10. Claim to be 'anti-imperialist', while showing themselves to be very much PRO-imperialist Russia

11. Never stop attacking the democratic West. Never stop their apologia for any non-Western nation not named Saudi Arabia

12. Have no clue at all about the history of Eastern Europe, and couldn't care less about its many peoples

13. Said Biden was 'the same as Trump'. A sick joke

14. Think The Morning Star is an objective, unbiased source

15. Call women who want to protect their hard-won rights 'bigots'

16. Think the 'working class' can somehow be miraculously reunited when they don't even know what 'working class' means any more

17. Think one hard left union should control the entire Labour Party - despite its disastrous guidance under the idiotic Len McCluskey, a man who helped usher Labour to electoral catastrophe

18. Are completely oblivious that a different union HAS AT LEAST AS MANY MEMBERS

19. Treat as traitors those who depart from their line on anything at all

20. Think the number of homeowners among the electorate - a substantial majority - can just be ignored

21. Are so callous, many would prefer the Tories staying in power to Starmer's Labour winning

22. At all times - AT ALL TIMES! - are ruled by the same ideology and dogma. Every single last thing must be fitted into that pitifully narrow world view. Everything.

Therefore: Starmer bad Corbyn good, US bad Venezuela good, Saudi Arabia bad Iran good, NATO bad Russia good

Women are 'bigots' while men claiming to be women are 'oppressed', facts are bad but feelings are good, Sanders good Biden bad, Tories bad Starmer worse, nationalism bad but left wing nationalism good, EU 'neoliberal' Lexit good...

Self-determination for Falkland Islanders bad, self-determination for Palestinians good; nuclear capacity for Britain bad, nuclear capacity for Iran, good; international law vital when the West breaks it, not at all important when Russia breaks it...

And on, and on, and on.

Every day, I despair, utterly, of having lost this glorious plot.

When will I find it again? 😭😭😭