Are MPs supposed to conspire with media outlets to orchestrate wild hate Jihads against their own party, trying as hard as they can to ensure their own side loses elections? Are there any other examples of this happening in British history, and indeed in electoral history anywhere on earth.

We're the Lesser Evil voting has to fucking die, because it's obviously not working and the Greater Evil is drinking your fucking blood by making you triangulate towards their miserable view of things because Things Aren't Allowed To Get Better is the underlying animus of most British politics.

Fair, but I'd say they've overall got more to gain than lose by picking fights. They'll never toughen up otherwise. They've got loads of councillors, some mps, a membership base, decades of experience of existing as a party. Time to actually go for it.

Isn't the point that they should be making political capital right now but are just being ignored? So even smeary publicity is good publicity. Also, they'd face much less fuckery from internal sabotage which was what made it so hard for Corbyn to defend himself.