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My usual twitter feed has not yet caught up the Corbyn launch. However, judging by the grudging praise from his enemies in the main stream media, he has had a triumph. He is set now to campaign in front of massive crowds until the conference in September. This coup has turned out to be a disaster. It had two phases first the Blairites struck staging their rolling resignations. That did not work then the Old Right under Watson appears to have taken over the coup. His strategy was to keep Corbyn off the ballot paper and when that failed he tried to disenfranchise Corbyn's base. That has failed too. So now the specter of deselection as the grimmest of Grim Reapers has come on the stage. The Right have alienated the new members by depriving them off a vote and banning meetings and suspending branches but they cannot keep doing that. The memerbs will have a chance to DE-select the MPs who went against their wishes. If the Corbyn slate for the NEC gets up then There will be no centre to impose right wing MPs on left wing constituencies. Already some of Corbyn's enemies are suing for peace. That will become an even greater number. I am reminded of Sun Tzu's injunction in the *The Art of War*, not to charge the enemy when they occupy the high ground. Corbyn has the moral high ground thanks to plotting and the dirty tricks that Watson and his allies have unleashed. He also has the fire power to take his enemies out. And they know it. What though can they do? They cannot call off the campaign, much as they would love to now. They have maneuvered Corbyn into a position of strength. He may not be very good at Prime Minister's Questions times but only the elite think that is an important arena. Out in the streets and halls across England he is unbeatable and the idiots who tried to topple him will be about to see the full might of the Corbyn movement build up over the summer and all the way to the Party Conference. All very pleasing. comradely Gary _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
