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Let's talk about labour Stephen remember labour?

Um are they sort of about yay high you, opposed to cuts to the welfare state.

Are they the one with 200 and something MPs?

Oh, oh, sassy.

I think I used to get press releases from them, but it's gone a bit quiet to be. It's all got a quite quiet on the Western front.

You've written your column this week about momentum, which is a very successful and very interesting

group that I think is probably both represented in the press as being kind of more powerful and more sinister

than it actually is, right? I mean you make a good case that it kind of comes out the same tradition as

labor first or progress or back in history further about the Fabian society right there is a

long-standing tradition of labor leaders having a group that they kind of come from

an intellectual tradition that they come from.

And then also it helps to exert their will over the grassroots and their internal opponents.

And the thing about all of these institutions, right, is they all tend to have an element of being a front group.

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