[arista]

You wanted to be a leader
but then the Press chased after your wife.
So you gave up.


You are not Labour
You are from New Labour.


[Chuka Umunna tells Corbyn to 'call off the dogs' and end purge
Labour MP Chuka Umunna claims so-called moderates face a "clear and present danger" of being run out of the party by hardliners.]

https://news.sky.com/story/chuka-umu...purge-11492924

[Underscore]

He's right though, moderates like me are being/have been purged. Those who aren't purged are walking away.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Underscore

He's right though, moderates like me are being/have been purged. Those who aren't purged are walking away.

You are not being Purged
Corbyn is a broad church.

[Underscore]

Originally Posted by arista

You are not being Purged
Corbyn is a broad church.

No. If you don't fit in his brand of looney left politics you're made to feel like you're not welcomed esp by members of momentum on twitter.

If you don't back one policy of Corbyn's manifesto, you're branded a Tory, a traitor and a Blairite.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Underscore

No. If you don't fit in his brand of looney left politics you're made to feel like you're not welcomed esp by members of momentum on twitter.

If you don't back one policy of Corbyn's manifesto, you're branded a Tory, a traitor and a Blairite.

Avoid any trouble makers.
You are no Traitor

[Underscore]

Originally Posted by arista

Avoid any trouble makers.
You are no Traitor

Thank you arista.

[Beso]

I would be raging at hos termanology

[bots]

Originally Posted by arista

You are not being Purged
Corbyn is a broad church.

So it's a broad church but Umunna should "shut the feck up" ?

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Underscore

He's right though, moderates like me are being/have been purged. Those who aren't purged are walking away.

Originally Posted by Underscore

No. If you don't fit in his brand of looney left politics you're made to feel like you're not welcomed esp by members of momentum on twitter.

If you don't back one policy of Corbyn's manifesto, you're branded a Tory, a traitor and a Blairite.

Yeah it's sad how it's become for moderates, Underscore... we have a similar issue with Democrats in the US. I was a Democrat voter during my 20's (mostly)... I don't think it's so blatant as that in the US that they will not extend the invite, but more of those folk don't fall under certain categories in terms of what they believe and where they stand on things like abortion, economy, etc.. they're branded racists... which is really just a naughty word now for being Conservative. As I see it, they're just sacrificing their own... not really eating their own, though it's basically the same, but yeah... gotta make examples of certain people to get their agenda out...

Have you ever heard of #walkaway? There's a few channels on YT with videos.. aside from the woo Trumpmania folk（￣ ¨ヽ￣ ）, many are people who were firmly progressive at one point in time, who have very interesting views now from a more moderate/non-partisan POV who are coming away from even groups like LGBT feeling burnt by their own groups because of that exact reaction you mention... there was this one video by a gay British guy I found particularly interesting... sort of like with TiBB, I wouldn't have expected that even our moderate-right look even remotely appealing to British nationals...

On my part, I helped vote in a moderate candidate in the Republican primaries who is not some batsh** evangelical, and actually recognizes non-Christian voters (such as gay, LGBT, gay marriage), so we'll see how that goes. Hopefully he wins... I think the left have gotten too big for their britches, but the Republicans have a lot they are still answering for as well... I do think we will end up with a newly energized moderate base of sorts particularly in the more southern portions of the US, though the mainstream will always say the opposite as long as fear-mongering and hyper-partisanship keeps the bills paid... anyway, trying to contain my words to a few paragraphs so won't go any deeper into that point...

[Redway]

Don’t tell an Igbo brother to shut up.