My thoughts FWIW
1) The bizarre paranoia of the left takes me back to my activist student days. Everything is always a plot! There are always secret enemies!
2) Corbyn's base will blame everything on this split. Forever. Whilst continuing to deny all fault on their and his part.
3) I am confused about whether we on the left should be calling for a GE as Corbyn has been urging for months or whether May is going to call a snap GE which she will surely win.
4) The return of the catastrophically awful Derek Hatton makes me yearn for the joy that was late period Ken.
5) The number one thing everyone should be thinking about now is Brexit and how to mitigate the damage.
This seems mean-spirited and also misplaced. It's an odd thing to survey the mess created by self-described centrists gleefully s____ing the bed and think, God, the British left are such bell ends.
It is literally a plot, by the way. I mean, it's one whose every move has been lovingly trailed in The Guardian and The Times, so not exactly secret, but it is still a plot.
Also, the idea that Corbyn's base is consumed with resentment at those who thwart them is well off the mark: it's the view of newspaper pundits raging at Twitter users. Activists are typically too preoccupied with getting things done to fixate on the predictable actions of blatant opportunists. We're also well aware that we're up against the entire establishment and so when we do want to vent some spleen the world's our oyster, really. Some pick on clowns like the IRG, others on local councils, others still are forensically focused on the Tories. Me, I like to shout at the media, because that's my trade, and at well-meaning professionals who find an excuse to put their own interests first, because that's a lot of my social scene.(And who do
they blame? Professional types tend to blame...a lack of professionalism on the part of the leadership, and the ravaging partisanship of members. This too is predictable, but I still find it enraging.) Objectively I'm aware that the blame has to be spread pretty widely, to the point that the question of blame is almost beside the point.