baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
With good reason, though. I am not part of the new fragile unity in Labour. The whole thrust of the Corbyn gang's agenda is more to do with transforming the internal make-up of the Labour party to ensure that the Socialist Left will have a lock down on constituency nominations until the end (or "the beginning"), rather than winning now. Although they are starting to have the delirious dream that this is in sight sooner than expected, which indeed it is. Either in the longer or shorter term, though, this is still a rolling nightmare for Labour, immediate shock and certain ambigious and untested benefits this election might deliver aside.
Huh? Corbyn's agenda is not about winning now, despite getting the 3rd best number of votes of any Labour politician since Attlee (after 97 Blair and 66 Wilson; and apparently ahead of '97 Blair in England according to something I read today, though I haven't yet seen the stats)?
If getting 12.9 million votes is not about making a pretty damned good attempt at winning now, then Lord knows what Labour was about before Corbyn took over. He has just run one of the best electoral campaigns ever seen in Britain, and saved the fricking Labour Party from a permanent redundancy. Of course only time will tell if he can finish the job, and predicting anything is a minefield, but it's the opposite of a nightmare for Labour - it's a rebirth. It is now relevant to a generation that isn't on its deathbed.
With Podemos attempting to oust Rajoy from government (though I don't rate their chances), it's looking like a pretty seminal week for the Left in Europe.
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