Their party made a formal commitment to NATO the other year. So from that point of view they can bloody fuck off, having revealed themselves to be exactly the same kind of hysterical middle-class imperialist wankers as the German Greens, who from 2022 have turned out to have the most astoundingly resolute commitment to hydrocarbon-fuelled war.

Polanski has said online that he wants to remove the NATO commitment. Well, he can get back to me once that's happened. In these Russophobic times, it will take a massive influx of grown-up members to turn around that policy; and I have no doubt that, if he does suck in a membership on that scale, the elite undermining of the party -- and him -- will be crushing and total and even more demoralising than the smashing of Corbyn, since there'll no longer be any lower rung to cling to.

M.