Last night I was part of a Twitter convo about Corbyn and Brexit policy. It has seriously bothered me. And I feel like I need to clarify why the initial claim was based on a false understanding. 1

So for the purpose of this thread the leave EU with regulatory alignment etc is Policy A, and Starmers coup 2nd ref is Policy B it's easier to use that to refer to them. 2

THE CLAIM is that Corbyn should have pushed Policy A during the 19 election instead of Policy B. Screenshot included for clarity. 3

So Policy A was resoundingly popular within the Party. At the 19 conference a motion of confidence in Policy A was supported with a huge majority. Starmer and his cronies also manipulated several other motions to make brexit policy adaptable 4

The leader of the Party can only push policy the Party adopts. They have no independent means to prefer policy in this case. So even though Policy A was popular and much more preferable to Policy B once the Party moved from A to B the leader had no right to ignore that 5

It is well understood that the saboteurs and Starmers PLP support was designed to oust Corbyn and Policy B was a key element to that. But that was not the claim made. Corbyn could not push Policy A over B because the Party had replaced A with B 6

So for this purpose Policy A ceased to exist when Policy B was adopted. Corbyn did not CHOOSE to push Policy B he had zero choice in the matter. 7

Now the conversation became bogged down in misdirection. Yes Starmer designed Policy B to oust Corbyn and lose the GE, yes Policy A would likely have won the election. Corbyn was not in charge of what policy the Party adopted. 8

Conference preferred Policy A but the Party adopted Policy B and Corbyn could not make a unilateral decision on policy. The initial claim suggested it's Corbyn's choice. I remember the Party campaigning and trying to wrestle with Policy B on the street. 9

Corbyn and the membership had no choice but to fight the election on the Policy B platform. Yes that does mean we were robbed, and we know who robbed us, but it's not fair to say Corbyn should have gone against the party even though the party had gone against him. 10

The other thing that needs to be pointed out is that the 19 manifesto contained Policy B not Policy A.

Any factual errors will be corrected as they are pointed out. END