The failure of the Labour Party in this week's election is a massive blow to those of us who believe in a collective approach to running the country. I am sad but I don't want to be full of bitterness and hatred. I look on social media and see the defeated variously blaming the press, blaming Jeremy Corbyn, blaming the parliamentary Labour Party, blaming those on the left who called out an anti-semetic tendency, and, perhaps most of all viewing those who voted for Brexit as morons. In the end all this is toxic. In terms of the last point, it is true - for whatever reason - that we live in a country in which a majority of people want to leave the EU. This is a fact. Justifying our position by saying they are deluded doesn't help and dismisses them as somehow less than us, which in turn diminishes us.
We have to move on while keeping faith.
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