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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

If people really stop supporting Labour over this, they weren't Labour voters anyway, they were Corbyn voters.

Even before the suspension he was unlikely to ever be a big player in politics again, so really ... Why does it matter?

That's not true at all.

You have to take into consideration the shift in the party ethos. And the adherence to due process in respect of how to react to the views of MPs including Mr Corbyn.
He was misquoted and the knee jerk reaction was to suspend him, that was the wrong thing to do.

It effectively sent out the message that he is the fall guy and to appease his detractors he had to go. Without acknowledging he made a valid point.

The public understanding was that up to a third of members were antisemitic, the true number as found was 0.3% this is an absolutely massive discrepancy and warranted a mention.

He was clear that 0.3% was too many too, the findings were not downplayed at all, it was never intimated the damage was overestimated or the response to the found failings in the party were. The only overestimate was how widespread the problem was within the party membership, for me that clarification was justified.

It's needed because of posts like this and others where for some reason supporting Corbyn can lead to unfounded accusations of antisemitism.