That smell turns people like me, and many I know away from politics. It makes us think that none of it matters anyway. That ‘they are all the same’. That we can’t affect or influence it anyway, that they will do what they want, so what’s the point. Jeremy was starting to change that. To bring us back. To give us some belief and hope in democracy. To not make us want to just burn it all down! Or to want to leave, to go somewhere where at least people aren’t pretending everything is ok. And now, you and your colleagues want to take that away. To give us what, instead? I haven’t heard or seen anything else (other than maybe this possible collaboration of the greens with JC) which offers anything like the alternative Jeremy represents. Hope itself is not enough. I know…we have to be pragmatic. So let’s be pragmatic! The last general election should have been a very clear lesson to Labour that if the party wasn’t going to offer anything radically different from the Tories, then the voters who would vote for those kinds of politics would vote….Tory!