The Far left have found themselves even more confused than normal today after revelations from losing Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith.
The Leninist/Trotskyist group of semi-professional paper sellers, the Socialist Workers Party, who consistently recommended that their members ‘vote Labour but build a fighting socialist alternative’ and NOT to join the Labour Party, were quite surprised to hear that they’d actually joined the Labour Party.
“It’s news to me” said Rochdale regional organiser Lawrence Larryson. “While we’re not actually opposed to entryism per se, we’re pretty sure that telling people to join us and not to join the Labour Party for over 40 years is quite a clear position. To find out we’d all joined the Labour Party without knowing – or paying – came as quite a shock. Do you wanna buy a paper? Smash the Tories!”
Meanwhile the Alliance for Workers Liberty were astounded to discover that they are Anti-Semitic.
“Are we? Well I’ll be a Marxist monkey’s uncle Joe!” exclaimed Mark Cunnin, Rochdale AWL treasurer. “I seem to remember getting stick from other left-wing groups for supporting Israel. In fact, some groups have refused to work with us just because we have consistently been supportive of Israel. Perhaps I imagined it all? Obviously a Welsh bloke who denies that he wants to get ISIS around the negotiating table, after his own quote was read back to him, would know better than the people in the organisation.”
Meanwhile, fans of Jeremy Corbyn were busy replaying the closing scenes of the Labour Party Leadership Question Time special where the crowd surrounded Jezza, and Smith forlornly wandered off the stage alone.
Or “with his mates” as one sparkling wit put it.
