Finnegan
I like a bit of a cavort
Bastani is simply wrong. We don’t look to Lineker as a fully formed, coherent and consistent political response to the excesses of a completely out of control, hard-right government. He is simply a bloke with liberal sentiments and a humanitarian consciousness who is using his considerable reach to highlight what he (rightly) perceives as injustice, and in that he deserves full support, rather than nit picking over tweets he made some time ago. Moreover, Lineker, Rashford et al are only filling the void left by Starmer’s New, New Labour’s complete inability to represent any meaningful opposition to the Tories.
And @Tony L is in danger of sinking into a relativist morass that sees Corbyn and Corbynism as merely the other arse cheek of a political tribalism. Corbyn was not an infallible saint. He made mistakes and had his weaknesses (not least an ideological commitment to Parliament in neglect of the huge social movement that was building behind him). But he was the best hope by a mile of getting rid of this shower of criminals and replacing it with something more humane and equitable.
And @Tony L is in danger of sinking into a relativist morass that sees Corbyn and Corbynism as merely the other arse cheek of a political tribalism. Corbyn was not an infallible saint. He made mistakes and had his weaknesses (not least an ideological commitment to Parliament in neglect of the huge social movement that was building behind him). But he was the best hope by a mile of getting rid of this shower of criminals and replacing it with something more humane and equitable.