Donald Roy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> </p><p>They are there because groups like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labourtogether" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labourtogether</span></a> and the heroically misnamed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labourtowin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labourtowin</span></a> saw them as useful auxiliaries against their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corbynista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corbynista</span></a> opponents - just as the latter earlier on had made use of some pretty unpleasant groupuscules themselves. History is littered with cases where supposed auxiliaries get out of hand - the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freikorps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freikorps</span></a> in the early <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/weimarrepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weimarrepublic</span></a> being the classic example!</p>