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@Jon_Kramer@TexasObserver Oh gosh, we're not from the U.S. nor located there but that's no excuse for us not to know about it. Here's an article from @Smithsonianmag that includes quotes from a survivor.
“He’s torn,” his close ally Diane Abbott, who herself may soon have to decide whether to run against Labour as an independent, told me a few months ago. “He’s a Labour person. He’s always been a Labour person.”
He still is a Labour person. It's Labour that isn't Labour any more, having abandoned any pretence of hewing to Leftist ideology. What happened under his tenure is that the party polarised into two camps. Starmer and co ousting him and anyone like him was as much pogrom against ideological enemy as we see elsewhere. If he could ignite that same revolutionary fire in people again he could be as influential to UK politics as Farage has been.
I mean, as a Scot I wouldn't vote for him but I've always believed he's exactly the progressive force England needs right now.