Thread by @Geoelte_Spinne

If we vote for anything except for Corbyn's Labour we're Tories, apparently.

I think; No. In fact I think the reason we've got austerity, Brexit, and nearly ten years of political decay is, to some extent, the fault of the very idiots who say this. Let me explain.

Just over a decade ago the UK had a centrist pro-EU and popular leader in Tony Blair. Anyone remember the guy?

Here he is being "strong and stable" in the face of Farage.

independent.co.uk/video/News/ton…

Of course he wasn't perfect. He was Labour leader, yet rich people hadn't been ground into dust. Of course welfare, social service, NHS, police, and other forms of public service spending were ramped up, but still, he didn't eradicate the capitalist pig-dogs. He did all this...

There was also Iraq. A war he got Britain into which toppled the lovely and cuddly Saddam Hussein. And after the war there were several inquiries which found no evidence of shenanigans on Blair's part, but who needs proof when it's Blair, he's a war criminal right?

So he had to go. The puritan wing of the Labour party ditched him and replaced a popular and charismatic man with a sullen and tetchy official, before running him right into the maw of Cameron - a man doing his best to imitate Blair.

Well done. Electoral walloping inevitably followed. Can't do this shit again with Brown, oh no, Labour needed someone different.

What about this David Miliband guy?

"The Blairite! Gather your pitchforks! Gather your torches! Any who were touched by the Blair must be cast out!"

So the Labour party ended up running Wallace sans Gromit up against the Tories, and the result was inevitable as it was horrific.

As a result of this stupid decision the UK took a party which had subjected the country to 5 years of austerity and returned it to parliament with a majority. In fact it was Cameron's belief that the Libs would prevent his Ref promise from being fulfilled that let him make it.

If you are a Corbyn supporter you need to understand something - there is no majority in the UK for what Corbyn is promising. There never has been. The only Labour leader win an election since the 1960s is Tony Blair, so if you don't count him as "Labour" then what does that say?

No, it isn't because people "just don't understand". It isn't because they've not heard the arguments. There aren't enough people visiting foodbanks to swing a national vote and nobody votes on account of other people using foodbanks - facts you need to deal with.

If you keep giving Labour these uncharismatic, sullen, crotchety, weak, and unbending ideological purists you're going to continue to give the UK a Tory government.

If your ideological purity is more important to you than actually being able to do something - fine.

Don't blame everyone else for the lack of political success of Labour and don't blame #FBPE or the Libs or people who won't vote for Corbyn. Newsflash kids: people are entitled vote how they please.

Either find a better (popular) candidate or live with the inevitable failure.