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Read the MacWhirter article above for how the same "rein in your trolls" non-argument was deployed in the indyref, along with the double standards when it came to abuse from the Better Together side.
I'm talking about the Labour members Smith and Eagle and their supporters have shamelessly lumped together and maligned because it's blatantly obvious Smith is way behind in the polls, often with downright lies (such as Eagle's abiding myth that her constituency office was bricked, that homophobic slurs were hurled at a constituency meeting she didn't even attend, that she had to cancel a meeting because of Momentum's antics whereas it was the venue's management that didn't want her gathering held there, etc. etc.) - they've done this themselves. You evidently just want to deflect, hence my repeating my point above.
Corbyn doesn't do personal abuse, so in that sense he's leading by example. He's repeatedly called for all sides to quit it and focus on the policy issues. Perhaps you could suggest what more he could do to "rein in his trolls". Meanwhile, what's the next slur to come out the Smith camp, propelled by ever-eager media, going to be?
Let's try this: I'll set up a DU sockpuppet account called T_i_B_Lover, and I'll go on GD and post all sorts of immoderate lashing-out shit "in the name of" T_i_B.
Why don't you rein me in? When, oh when, will T_i_B rein in T_i_B_Lover? Shame on T_i_B for not doing more to distance himself from T_i_B_Lover. Will this abuse in T_i_B's name from T_i_B_Lover never end?!?!
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