For socialists in the Labour Party it will be a relief that the Blairite plan to stage two electoral disasters on one night failed. Nobody can claim losing Copeland was Jeremy Corbyn’s “fault”: the fault lies with the careerist right-winger who abandoned the seat in mid-session to take a better job.

And the Blairite plan to abandon Stoke to UKIP, egged on by the media also failed, when the latter turned out to be led by a hapless fantasist.

Without taking issue with anything else you wrote, you’re starting to sound like Private Eye’s Dave Spart here — or even their version of Corbyn.

Banging on about a massive Blairite conspiracy — with its tentacles presumably in every branch, and behind every election failure and every decision you don’t like — just makes you sound rather unhinged. And it devalues the word “Blairite” in the same way the current widespread usage of the word “fascist” does to that concept: it’s just being used as shorthand for “people and views I don’t like”.

And claiming “Nobody can claim losing Copeland was Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘fault’” singularly ignores the fact that a large number of people do claim it was his fault (fairly or not) — even a lot of the actual voters. He is the Labour leader, you know.