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Ofoc, there go the centrists!
SOLOMON HUGHES describes Our Future Our Choice's fitting end
OWN GOAL: Ofoc’s antics likely helped put their enemies in power

OUR Future Our Choice, the anti-Brexit “youth group,” backed a hopeless “centrist” party called Advance Together during the last election.

Our Future Our Choice, known as Ofoc, spent a lot of effort trying to influence Labour Brexit policy, often through stunts that made a lot of noise, but didn’t involve that many activists.

But it turns out it was supporting the failing centrist Advance Together party during the election.

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