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but were SWPers involved in Corbyn Labour, is what I mean

possibly in terms of branch meetings, but there weren't many Trot factions that actively organised their way into Labour under Corbyn - the ban on the Socialist Party remained, there was no organised move by the SWP, there might have been some odds and sods from the AWL or one or two others

likely

Corbyn seems to have envisaged something resembling Respect, but without Galloway or the now-shrunk SWP. A bottom-up model would be much more secular-socialist and be less able to re-run Respect's more Muslim-oriented electoral strategy

On the flip side, top-down Do As I Say parties on the radleft have been tried and failed, so they should roll the dice with a bottom-up democratic model as favoured by Sultana. But accept that it likely kills Your Party as an electoral project in the short term, as it'd be cut to two MPs

I mean, she's not from the far left factions herself. I do think there's strong evidence that she's believed her own hype and thinks she's the big cheese - she's demonstrated very few leadership qualities at all in this - but she's not part of the alphabet spaghetti

"Now we'll both drown!"
"It's in my nature, said [name redacted for legal reasons]"

It's not my fight, but Your Party was absolutely right to insist on no double-party memberships for this precise reason, and absolutely right to kick out the SWP because they're the SWP for fuck sake.

she joined then left, too anti-terf

Fiachra sounds like it might be the Gaelic word for "fart"

hey next time tag Victoria Freeman

but Labour's agenda is to curtail future price rises through building - you can argue over whether that can work or not, but it's quite distinct from relying on ever-rising house prices

what hasn't yet been reckoned with is what that means for the (New Labour) model of asset-based welfare

the housing market didn't really crash in Britain in 2008 the way it did in the late 80s/early 90s - there were efforts to minimise repossessions, and the price rises had been driven by demand/need rather than PIIGS-style speculation so price recovery was fairly swift

is Labour doing that?

*43 presumably, or 42

the trouble is they won't drop the price

yeah, you either wouldn't get buyers or you'd have to drop the price quite a lot