Richard gives his account of the Respect split to far left mag

A few comments on it. Why does he describe Michael Crick as a "right wing journalist?" Crick does the same style of reporting on every political party, and ripped it out of Kilroy when he left UKIP in a mirror type move to what's happened to Respect. He also famously took down Jeffery Archer and sparked off the revolt against Iain Duncan Smith that overthrew him. Crick actually used to support Labour before he became a top journalist too, you know.

Seymour also comes across as humorous by dissing the monty python sketch. The truth is, there is something to it; you only have to have seen how Seymour himself suddenly changed his tune on Galloway after the SWP committee told him the new line to how fickle and sectarian the far left can be. Before that occurred there wasn't a peep out of him on the whole crisis, and he had gained a hard earned reputation as being the most sycophantic pro-Galloway blogger on the web.

A poster in the Seymour's thread links to a story on Galloway going to Syria to defend his pro-Saddam bent mate who made money at the expense of Iraqi children, to which Seymour retorts that he's not going to start demonising him on that score - politics is what this should be about. However the reality is Seymour couldn't attack Galloway on that whole thing even if he wanted to - given the endless posts defending every detail of his personal dealings that remain in the Tomb archives. That would be too hypocritical even for him. But you still have to pinch yourself to see the terms in which Seymour now describes the "maverick MP" (medialens would say "maverick" is a propaganda term).

Check out the last section where he lays into the Respect Renewal conference and Galloway's style of working.