[General] peddling

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tkacka15

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" If my memory doesn't fail me, Polly Toynbee supported the Blairites peddling the fear of the Labour's unelectability under the Corbyn's leadership." [From the Guardian readers' forum.]

Who is peddling the fear in the above context? Is it Polly Toynbee or the Blairites?

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It would have been clearer if the writer had used an apostrophe (although there is a way of parsing the sentence that makes an apostrophe unnecessary - the two possible parsings are left as an exercise for the reader ;-))

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