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A lot of disinformation already being put out by the UK's establishment media reporting on the Holborn & St Pancras by-election, so let's get a grip on reality for a moment.

Keir Starmer quit the seat because he's a careerist liar, but also quite possibly to pettily stress out his successor Andy Burnham, who's played it brilliantly short-term. How has he done so?

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He's done it by (albeit temporarily) fending off both left and far-right by co-opting the Green Party's message of hope even without any clear groundbreaking policy to back up the rhetoric in this time of Late Capitalism.

The Greens are arguably the only major party standing up for workers, wealth redistribution, immigrants, trans rights, social security, UBI, climate action, the right to protest, and Palestine - to name a few - as answers to the problems of our time.

Sure enough, Green leader Zack Polanski, according to every single poll I checked week after week, was always going to lose this by-election in what is traditionally a safe Labour seat.

Constantly largely ignoring all the policies above, of course, the establishment media were ready and waiting to pounce if a certain motion was passed at the Green Party conference days before the by-election - a motion on Zionism as racism - because they know what worked to destroy Corbynism.