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A "senior moment" from a Guardian journalist

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/02/jeremy-corbyn-gang-of-one-reawakens-media-80s#comments   Jeremy Corbyn’s Gang of One reawakens the media of the 80s Peter Preston. Guardian "Journalist"   Peter Preston must have been in the middle of a very long "senior moment" when he wrote the piece of journalistic nonsense. To draw a similarity between the events of the 1980's and the departure of the "Gang of Four" and what is happening now with the growing support within the Labour party for Jeremy Corbyn demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the Labour party then, and perhaps more importantly, now. To describe Corbyn as a "Gang of one" fails to grasp the simple fact that his candidacy for the leadership has led to literally thousands of people either joining, or like me rejoining, the Labour party to be part of the movement to take back the initiative and restore confidence in a bankrupt political ...