The week before the Hamburg elections, he again spoke out against his own party, this time leading to the start of the party exclusion procedute against him.

Now he fights the threatening exclusion while continuing to shoot at the current leadership in his very open arguments against getting closer to the Left Party and replacing all fosil fuels with renewables. He says with Beck's strategy, the SPD "is risking everything that is there in the centre to win nothing".

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}