One rather thinks that Marcus A Roberts, Deputy General Secretary of the left-leaning Fabian Society, is being disingenuous by circulating this comment about Paul Ryan.
If he genuinely believed that the Paul Ryan appointment was "poison" presumably he would be quietly pleased, keep quiet about it, and let the "poison" have its effect.
The fact that he, and left-wing writer Sunny Hundal, and the others involved in this conversation are publicly trying to "warn" the American Republican Party that they have made some kind of mistake indicates that the British left is alarmed for some reason.
As Paul Mason pointed out on Newsnight yesterday, in a political landscape bereft of original thinking (in the United Kingdom and in Europe as well as in America) the appearance of a political leader able to generate new ideas as well as having the charisma to communicate them and a platform to get attention - this is a new and unexpected development.
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