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I agree that Left Unity's time has been and gone. It was even before the Corbyn campaign took off. The sensible thing would be for Left Unity to dissolve itself and join Corbyn's Labour Party en masse.

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A Tom and Jerry front cover would be a bad idea. Please don't.

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Liking a page or group on facebook doesn't really qualify as support or sympathy. So I'd scale down that figure of a 1000.

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Vin wrote:

We can take something possible from this. Rejection of cardboard cutout, career politicians.  His phrase 'One World'  And his favourite song is after all  Imagine.  

Apparently he didn't mention the word 'socialism' during his victory speech, but I guess he was just seeking to be conciliatory towards all wings of the Labour Party.

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I really hope the Party doesn't go down the road of contesting the mayoral election. I don't think there's anything to be gained from it.

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ALB wrote:

Surely it was "Jezwedid". Though that sounds more like SPD.

You're probably right.

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alanjjohnstone wrote:

A 60% vote certainly gives him a mandate and the thank you speech was littered with sound-bites. But the one that stood out for me was."We are one world." But my hearing was confused at the beginning as he mounted the rostum…i kept hear "SPGB…SPGB.." being chanted…what was it really?

 "Jezwecan"?

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I'm not a big fan of some of the twitter stuff or this month's Socialist Standard front cover, but I still think that the coverage of Corbyn and his campaign within the pages of the Standard has been measured and well presented.

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jondwhite wrote:

So now we have Corbynwho is popular among Labour memberswho is popular among Labour supporters who are not memberswho has purportedly engaged non-political people with high turnout meeting rallieswho is averse to personality politics, more keen on movements than leadership and not seemingly a product of focus groupswhose policies are popular among the general publicSo do we continue to attack the man or play the ball?

You've missed something from your list.."who is pushing the same old illusions that continually lock the working class into the reformist dead end"And this is "playing the ball" it's a comment on ideas, not the personality.

Hurry up with the like button function, 'cos I like this post. What DJP said.

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Tonight, Panorama are dedicating their show to Corbyn's revolution – for want of a better term.8.30pmhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bg6ty

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He blocked me on twitter after I called him out for being such an abusive prat.  eta: The above is in reference to Derek Wall on twitter.

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If it's doable I think it would be a  worthwhile addition to the forum.

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Or as Ian Bone once termed it, 'Anarcho-Brigadoon'.

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From 1938:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/09/should-aliens-be-allowed-in-1938.html

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This invective directed against us is solely as a consequence of the twitter account.Derek Wall is a bloke who has spoken at a past SPGB Summer School, who has debated with us and, whilst disagreeing with our politics, understands our core politics and why it is we oppose the left-wing of capitalism and all its manifestations.And yet, despite all that, we've coloured ourselves in such a fashion on twitter that he now thinks of us as the caricature spgb that we've always hated being portrayed as. People should chew that one over.Just because we're making 'noise' on twitter it doesn't by default make it a good thing.

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