Read on Twitter
Feels like an opportunity to try and disentangle various Political Affects (tm) so here we go: https://twitter.com/zinovievletter/status/1281324230974545928
Was incredibly disappointed but - excluding the first three minutes after the exit poll - not really surprised. Was and still am angrier at the narrative framing than the result, in as much as a better result is impossible without a new frame, which still looks decades away.
Relatedly, disburdened of the pressure to work in or with the Labour Party to get them INTO POWER NOW, and thus relieved of the imperative to share political space with really, really, really terrible people.
Persistently far angrier with the smug purr of centrist celebrities and their unfamous sycophants than with cut-and-dried Tories.
I know this sounds bad, but weirdly in a *better* place politically because Corbynism at times felt like This One Weird Trick To Have A Better Country and I felt anxious it masked the scale of the systemic issue.
And along with that, concerned for people who invested in Corbynism in a bigger way than me, who I think deserve a break and, nebulously, time for Nice Things.
