Thing is, given the core electoral coalition of the new party is quite conservative, I can understand the political calculus for not saying explicitly pro-trans things. But making that calculus shatters the myth Corbyn is above normal political grubbiness

Love a chance to wheel out my favourite British politics anecdote:

But what centrists, liberals and the left can't afford anymore are these wild swings from depression to complacency and back again after each election cycle plays itself out.

The battle for power has no joyous endpoint, it requires sustained focus to manage a permanent process.

One thing I haven't seen pointed out, although someone must have said it, is that much of the reported EU surplus is probably a fiction driven by tax avoidance. Ireland supposedly exports 6 times as much to America as it imports; it's 3 percent of EU GDP but accounts for 1/3 the trade imbalance