As this weekend's post-mortems of the Gorton & Denton by-election get under way its worth making the key point that I'm sure will be made anyway:

Its not so much that Labour voters have abandoned the Labour Party, but more the Labour Party has been abandoning its Left voters for years;

the lesson of Thursday is taking the Leftish for granted only works when there is no Left alternative.

If Thursday changed anything, it made that much, much clearer!

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