Why can't lefties argue properly?

The main problem with lefties is that they can’t decide in their own minds what exactly they want. And sometimes want two paradoxical things simultaneously. So, among the Twitter reactions from Corbynistas to my appearance on Question Time last Thursday was this: ‘I hope he dies a long and painful death TONIGHT.’ I mean come on mate, make your bleedin’ mind up. At least the injunctions that my wife and daughter should be raped and murdered had a certain internal consistency about them. They’re a lovely bunch, no?

https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1045438264906338305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

What was lacking in the responses, much as it was lacking in my co-panellist Ian Lavery’s response (he just shouted OOOTrageous OOOTrageous and then said I was a right-wing extremist) was any challenge to the points I made. Any attempt at refutation. That’s because there isn’t one. The leadership of the party has given support and succour to Hamaz, Hezbollah, the IRA, the Soviet Union (in the past), Cuba and Venezuela. I might have added Iran, from which they also took money. Indisputable. Similarly there can be no refutation to the charge that Shami Chakrabarti, Diane Abbott and Emily Thornberry send their children to private or selective schools while, hypocritically, demanding the rest of us use comprehensives. Thornberry tweeted in annoyance that she didn’t send her kids to private school – but then I never said she did. She sends them out of her area to a school which is selective, and the Labour Party opposes selection. But does any of this play with the electorate? Thing is, I don’t think it does very much. Any more than the IRA stuff played at the last election. Why this should be is a partial mystery. Perhaps politics has reverted to its tribal position where all charges laid against a politician will be disbelieved or discounted by members of his tribe instinctively and viscerally. This infantile rabble is still just about level in the polls.