I'm going to watch this, because I hate myself. https://twitter.com/cambridgeunion/status/1330818718818066434?s=20

Oh my goodness, they also have Iain McNicol on, saying that he feels he should've "pushed back more" against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

Margaret Hodge is talking about the "Corbyn ideology" and how it was better for Labour to appeal to consumers rather than producers.

John Mann: "a lot of the supporters of Jeremy Corbyn were very right wing and reactionary, actually."

[citation needed]

John Mann's saying that young people were driven away by Corbyn.

Margaret Hodge just said that she couldn't tolerate any racism. If only 2007 Margaret Hodge knew!

Hodge now saying Corbynites think of financiers as Jews - making their anti-capitalism inherently racist - and are "anti-Western, pro-Russian".

Iain McNicol's saying it's worth reading the whole of the EHRC report. I agree. Particularly the bit where it says that the GLU under his tenure ignored the complaints inbox.

Stephen Bush is suspiciously keen to emphasize that he's "outside the Labour Party".

Stephen is coming up with random (bad) examples that don't make any sense whatsoever. He says that if it mattered to the Corbynites these people would have been immediately expelled - surely that goes against the EHRC report?

I'm sorry, but what Stephen Bush said was completely incoherent.

Margaret Hodge: "I don't want to talk about JEREMAY COTBNY. He's yesterday's man. But he always puts himself at the centre of these things. And that is why he must do etc etc etc."

I'm fairly sure Margaret Hodge just defamed Jenny Formby by implying that the problem was isolated to her tenure as General Secretary.

John Mann: "The definition of who's left and who's right is one I don't really accept."

Mann: "One of the things that's drawing people back into the party is...one of things that dismayed me...the rubbishing of the Blair governments." Apparently his sister earned more under Blair. Heartwarming.

Mann (a man who left the party because he was given a job by the architect of the hostile environment): "The people who are leaving the party at the moment are the hardcore people who are so obsessed with the antisemitic theories that they've built up over the past few years."

Margaret Hodge's houseplant is as dead as her conscience.

Horrible colour scheme too.

McNicol just name-checked Jonathan Ashworth and Kier Starmer as being factionally aligned to himself.

Should McNicol have just said that the highest priority (on the "should Starmer have stayed in Corbyn's SC" question) was to accelerate the change of leadership?

Stephen Bush - on whether it's right to withhold your vote from the party as a veto - says that it's a matter of personal conscience. I don't think that's true? Like, there are small considerations like what's good for the country?

This entire thing is just people who've claimed to be impartial arbiters of right and wrong talking about all the different ways in which they tried to wreck the Corbyn project.

I submitted some quite specific questions about Hodge's racism and the Macpherson principle and, I'll be honest, they're not going to be asked.

Oh, look, the fun question: "if you were stuck in a lift with Corbyn what would you say?"

I imagine Hodge's answer will have to be bleeped out.

Mann talking about how much of a coward Corbyn is. Saying that his family were threatened and had to be provided with police protection. I wonder if such a thing ever happened to Corbyn and his family...oh right, EVERY FREAKING DAY.

"If Kier Starmer keeps on doing what he's doing in the court of public opinion, we'll win." Strong words from Mann.

McNicol and Hodge - two famously repentant people - both say simply that he should apologise.

Stephen Bush is waffling on at such length I can only presume he interpreted it as the Empire State Building lift.

Bush asserting that it's part of Jeremy Corbyn's arrogance that he, rather than Diane Abbott, John McDonnell, or Clive Lewis was nominated for leader in 2015. This seems like idiotic revisionism.

Ok, I was giving the chair the benefit of the doubt by assuming he just wasn't on top of his brief, but I think he's actually just blinded by ideology. He seemed to imply that students had politically come of age through aversion to Jeremy Corbyn. Statistics suggest otherwise!

John Mann waffling on about how the barometer for success is if people from vulnerable communities feel welcome in the Labour Party. I hope he's coming to an apology for his antiziganism!

Can't even be bothered to try and communicate whatever Stephen Bush just said.

Hodge: "I joined the Labour Party because I wanted to change the world for a better place."

Hodge is saying that if you look 50-100 years ago there were hundreds of Jewish Labour MPs, and that Jews saw the party as their natural home. This may be an interesting historical change, but I'm not sure how much you can attribute that to Corbyn.

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.

If I were chairing this event I would simply ask these controversial figures about some of the bad things they're on record as having said or done.

And now let us never speak of this again.