Never cross a picket line, not even a UCU one. As the most obvious bringing of the Labour Party into disrepute by engaging in conduct contrary to its fundamental values, crossing a picket line ought to be expulsionable. Of course neither Young Labour nor anyone else ought to campaign for anyone who had done it.
But to the delight of a 58-year-old who is creepily obsessed with Young Labour, and who is no more a member of the Labour Party than I am, it is Young Labour that is liable to be punished for its stance. It is no wonder that the unions are pulling the financial plug on what ought to rename itself the Scab Party.
Other sources of funding are not queuing up, so bankruptcy beckons for "the party", whereas industrial activism has not been so lively or effective in a generation, and it is about to become a very great deal better resourced. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
That 58-year-old has set himself up as the final authority of Labour's "values", "heritage", blah blah blah.
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