Corbyn's cult has about six members. Creating a split in such a small group is quite an achievement.

Personally i think tying herself to Corbyn from the off was strategically poor. Long-Bailey may have been a better bet; both for advice on how to manage Corbyn, and to have an ally who would cover some of her own weaknesses.

I think to an extent that is where the Labour left falls down strategically over and over again; they don't cover their bases. I don't know if it's because they don't think to or they don't think hard enough about the optics; but that really is the whole point of the party being a broad church in the first place, that your ticket can cover multiple different possible voter groups.

From the off Your party, by its makeup, only really ever had the maximum potential to capture voters that were happy with a Muslim-majority party and faction. That would be easy to propagandise against, not least by rejuvenating the accusations that got Corbyn kicked out of leadership in the first place.

As a Lib Dem I'm not particularly bothered, but I do find the clumsiness of it all embarrassing.

2 hours ago, Suedehead2 said:

Corbyn's cult has about six members. Creating a split in such a small group is quite an achievement.

I nearly thought you said Lloyd George there SH, by 1932 the old trickster had 6 loyal MPs in the old liberal party all of them related to him!