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I feel like everyone thinks I& #39;m a cowardly Menshevik for this but it seems obvious to me this is both and https://twitter.com/jemgilbert/status/1263781297966776320">https://twitter.com/jemgilber...
a) Momentum and Corbynism& #39;s major success has been an urban coalition of ahem & #39;graduates without a future& #39; who would have been Green, sect, Lib Dem or not voting with a working class BAME vote which while generally Labour, often didn& #39;t vote previously. That& #39;s good not bad
b) while this has happened, no such coalition has emerged in smaller towns and cities in N and Mids, despite sporadic good examples like Preston. One needs to be built - not sure if you build it by denigrating the only success though
c) I think a lot of people are assuming that those places can just be written off as & #39;well, racist boomers who bought their council houses, what to do& #39;. That& #39;s a factor, but so too is massive depoliticisation in the workplaces and shitty (and usually Labour) local authorities
d) if the left can& #39;t -both- be an urban & #39;social movement& #39; that is in some ways yes & #39;subcultural& #39; -and- a mobilising and politicising force in workplaces and local authorities we will lose and lose and lose
this is basically the sum of why I think both the Forward and Renewal factions have a point and why I find the entire argument incredibly frustrating
