The ranting of a pissed off Labour moderate.

This is the last I’ll say on Corbs because I’m burnt out and want to get back to not being constantly furious at you silly bastards.

Jeremy Corbyn has been a very successful leader if you share his criteria for success: the breakup of the Labour Party as a broad coalition of left wingers brought together to win elections and actively help the working class. Corbyn doesn’t care about the working class, he cares about 'the movement’. Remember, the movement can be whatever he needs it to be at any given time. Maybe this week the movement needs all the Blairite scum expelling. Maybe next week it will need him to sit back as his supporters take to Twitter and call his critics red Tory dykes, or warmongers, or vermin.

The Tories are not Corbyn's enemies; Labour is Corbyn's enemy. Fashioning compromises in order to achieve some of your goals in Parliament is anathema to the true believer. Corbyn is at best suspicious of Parliamentary democracy. His preference is shown through his actions: pontificating to a fired up mob marching through the streets, never needing to compromise, not accountable to anyone.

He can’t destroy the only electable progressive party in England on his own. It takes lots of middle class right-on people who know they can afford another few Tory governments to get what they want in the long term. The subtext being that those in dire need of progressive legislation, the poor, will just have to trust them that this is for the best. Yeah 'the Blairites' may well build schools and hospitals and create Sure Start centres, but they went to war over a decade ago, and so must be destroyed.

I admit: I don’t care about the Labour Party either. I’m not a loyalist (by the way, it’s hilarious how many of you are furious at the lack of loyalty from Labour MPs, considering Corbyn was instrumental in the last Labour breakup and has never tried to hide his disloyalty to past leaders). I care about my country. I care about kicking the Tory Party out of power for a generation and trying to bring desperate people out of poverty and give them a stake in their country. Do you care about that? If you do, I can see no possible reason to support Jeremy Corbyn.

I implore you: take your need for a socialist hero, take your itch to rail at the establishment, take your cult of personality and your simple answers and your desire for an in-group and sod off. This isn't a game. This isn't 'design your own country'. We have to work with what we've got and achieve what we can. Placards won't feed families; protests won't build homes; anger won't teach our children.

You've got the Greens if you'd rather pass your time talking to people who agree with you and feeling good about how much you care. The Labour Party is in it to win it. You don't get to burn it down to build yourself a new left wing pressure group. Fuck the fuck off.

Jeremy Corbyn *does not want a Labour government*, and on that score he’s a roaring success.

Much love, still x