@ChrisMayLA6 The people who voted Green were the same people Tony Blair told to "get a heart transplant" or the surge of Labour members when Corbyn was leader (he of twice getting more GE votes than Starmer).

The Greens aren't "splitting the Left". They're just… Left.

@Sarahw @KennyPark @ChrisMayLA6

They did ask, there were leaked panicked internal Labour emails about it.

"If Corbyn wins a general election due to all the new Labour voters, then it will be very difficult for us to retain control of the party" was the takeaway mood of those emails. "Us" here means the Blairites, the professional party staffers recruited directly out of university politics and think tanks.

As ever, the Iron Law of Institutions holds: people inside an institution will tend to be willing to sacrifice the institution's overall good in order to ensure their factional control over that institution.

@passenger @KennyPark @ChrisMayLA6
Yes, Corbyn was stitched up not just by the media, but also by his own party.
Far too radical to actually be allowed to govern, even for his own party.

But now Starmer seems to emulate Reform rather than offering an alternative.

@Sarahw @KennyPark @passenger @ChrisMayLA6 among the many deep shames of the Labour Party is the outstanding fact that many of them - led by Blair - explicitly preferred Boris to JC, and actively campaigned on that basis. I remember watching Jess P on a breakfast show before the JC election where he narrowly lost, thoroughly undermining him. On national TV.

It was extraordinary. And here we are