Such a revealing, maddening post & an illustration of why so many progressives will not return to Labour. It also does such a disservice to the real Left in the Labour Party, many of whom are good and committed socialists. Let's be clear: Starmerism wasn't defeated by the Labour Left, even if the SCG were brave and principled in standing up to Starmer and McSweeney. Starmer was defeated because people voted Peray out and the Greens into power in councils across the country. That allowed a combination of soft-left MPs and a whole bunch of Labour Together opportunists in Starmer's Cabinet to putsch Starmer. There wasn't even a leadership election! And now Burnham has done one good Conference speech (which may well be deflated by a brutal budget in 4 weeks), Peray and Restoration and others are acting like they won this battle, that they're the brave warriors who stayed and fought and returned Labour to the sunlit uplands. And look at this language. "Militant entryists." That's the language of arch-Starmerites. Who are these entryists? The 250k ordinary members who left the Labour Party, appalled by punching down and genocide complicity? The people who left, and organised, and won, and are now being lectured and scolded, told in patronising terms to come back "home" to a Party that treated them like dirt, that still sees them as entryists? Labour could cohere a progressive coalition under Burnham. But if he does it will be in spite of this crowing, not because of it.