Here's a below-the-line comment on the Guardian website that, to me, is sublime in its measured wisdom:

I’m one of those regarded as ‘hard left’ but I’m not, I’m just someone like millions of others who adheres to the values of our founder, Keir Hardie.

Racism and prejudice are anathema to those values - it’s one of the main reasons I was attracted to the Labour Party long before I could even vote.

In all that time, over half a century, I’ve never come across racism in any of the countless interactions I’ve had at either local or national level. I have, however, experienced high levels of horror when labour colleagues have encountered it outside the party.

The right wing media spent a fortune on the character assassination of Corbyn and following his inevitable fall he wasn’t supported by the party.

This was deeply wrong and has ostracised huge numbers of us, including the young who had been brought back into the party.

The Labour Party has historically been a broad church, a tolerant, socialist party.

It’s not factionalism we need, it’s unity - we need to set this divided nation an example and begin the process of social change.

We need, once again, to focus on our basic socialist values, not do the opposite and treat socialism as a dirty word…

…it’s the cleanest word we have.

Alleluia.