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To those of us who are neither Blairites nor hard left, the leaked report sums up the despair of 25 years of being ruled by lunatic hard-right & hard-left, both of whom are tight-knit paranoid vanguardists who believe in the party being ruled by a rigid, narrow sect (their own)
I remember my gradual realisation as a teenager that the institutions of the party - HQ & regional offices esp - were run by this weird Labour Students > Staffer conveyor belt of cultists who honestly believed that any policy to the left of Alan Milburn or John Reid was communism
I largely dealt with Region. In their heads, they were the Blairite Praetorian Guard, crack troops of the Labour Ultra-Right. They did indeed have unthinkingly rigid Blairite politics, but they were also usually v. stupid & incompetent. Everything they ever touched turned to shit
They all loved & #39;The Thick of It& #39;, seeing it as an instruction manual. Slight problem was that reality was rather prosaic. They applied their mixture of rigid aggression & clowncar incompetence to weighty matters such as & #39;Central Xshire County Council selections& #39;. The Bathos...
Then after years of that, which was very trying indeed, we were swamped with another group of paranoid nutters: the conspiracist loons of the Corbynite hard left, who thought that anyone who didn& #39;t want to nationalise the whole economy and shoot the Queen tomorrow was a Tory.
For a brief period - the one chronicled by the leaked report - we had the nightmare scenario of the party machine still being run by the hard-right loons, while the leadership & membership fell into the hands of the hard-left loons, literally the worst of all possible worlds
Meanwhile, those of us who weren& #39;t keen on Blair and (to put it mildly) got queasy about e.g. the Iraq War or PFI or light-touch financial regulation, but also weren& #39;t nutty Bolsheviks who believed that everything was an Israel-orchestrated conspiracy, quietly despaired.
For those getting their knickers in a twist about the report, 1. It is a) bad & b) totally unsurprising, 2. Don& #39;t think the WhatsApp groups of the hard left nutters wouldn& #39;t be as bad in their way and 3. If you think we lost the 2017 election because of these staffers, you& #39;re mad
Labour HQ and regional parties have won and lost elections with the same ragtag band of Blairite incompetents, in a General Election their actions are such a tiny factor in terms of the overall result as to be close to zero in impact.
