Unless "left-wing" now has no meaning
beyond "in disagreement with Peter Hitchens", it is simply rubbish to
suggest, either that most left-wingers supported the secession of Kosovo and
now take the anti-Russian side in Ukraine, or that very many people at all who
take that view are in any sense left-wing.
The equation of the Left with support for the EU is
also downright bizarre. The only British national newspaper (sold in
newsagents, and part of the Parliamentary Lobby) to take an editorial line
against Tony Blair's war in Kosovo, and which is now extremely critical of the
Maidan Putsch, is also the only one to have endorsed an anti-EU list at the
last European Elections, having been opposed to the entire project continuously
from the very start.
See if you can name it. It is neither the Daily Mail
nor the Daily Telegraph. Unlike it, neither of those has a large and highly
active Readers' and Supporters' Group among Labour MPs, set up by members of
the 2010 intake.
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