For all the people saying this is a fringe issue - implying we need to let it go because we need to be out, fighting the Tories ...
Who, exactly, is going to be out there fighting the Tories?
Most of the Leadership contenders and the Deputy Leadership contenders signed a pledge calling for the expulsion of women who question any of this.
So, actually, this is, in fact, all about fighting the Tories. About who has allowed int the pure Labour Party and permitted to fight the Tories.
Heaven knows, I'd like Labour to focus on things that that I, personally, think are more important.
But - with the expulsion pledge - these MPs (would-be Leaders and Deputies) have put this at the very centre of Labour.
Where you stand on this is a definition of whether you may, or may not, be in the Labour Party.
And don't forget Nadia Whittone, doubling down; stating that members that cannot be re-educated need to be expelled.
It is, in fact, completely dysfunctional.
This is not how you prepare for power.
It just isn't.
So, for all of you who need a proper Opposition to the current government, who need an Opposition to hold this government to account, to threaten the Conservatives with defeat next GE, and to give hope of a Labour government ...
Well, all I can say is, 'sorry.'
Because this is not how a Party, serious on becoming a government behaves.
You can say, 'There are bigger issues' all you wish.
But you are missing the point.
Anything Labour does right now is as meaningless as an arcane ritual from a vanished society.
Until Labour acts like a Party intent on government - and that means not threatening to expel members over issues that require debate, and listening to voters likewise - they are getting nowhere near government.
This is massively important and incredibly depressing.
The Leadership campaign is exposing just how much the Leaders are still in fear of the (loudest, most organised) members*. And how far those members are from the majority of the electorate.
*Not all members, clearly - or you wouldn't have to threaten a whole bunch of members with expulsion.