I was going to make this what would no doubt have been a very long and rambling personal view about the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn, but this piece;-

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a...5b97f4c021e227

says so much of what I was going to say more succinctly and cogently than I could have done.

I see Jeremy Corbyn is peddling the crackpot view of "I am proud that on austerity, on corporate power, on inequality and on the climate emergency we have won the arguments" in this Guardian piece today;-

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ibility-defeat

being generous, Labour might not have lost the argument on those subjects, but won them, really? To have won the argument, we would have to be waking up with a Labour Government this morning.

Writing for the same paper, Jess Phillips is, surely, much closer to the truth when she says;-

"In the 1990s, Labour needed to bring middle-class voters into a coalition with a working-class base. Today we have the opposite problem. The more working-class a constituency was, the worse the result was for Labour. The problem isn’t just that working-class people will be hurt by the Tories – it’s that too many don’t believe we’re better than the Tories. Belief matters, and we failed the test. That is an existential problem for the party that is named for working people."

in this piece;-

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-jess-phillips

The more I think about it, the more I believe that the 2019 election result represents a microcosm of this country's political history over much of the last century with the Torys finding a way to get things done, while the rest of the party's, with the recent exception of the SNP, find ways to cock things up.

No party is more guilty of this than Labour and generations who have spent their lives believing strongly in the historic core values of the party, frankly, deserve an apology from its leaders this weekend - I've spent my life thinking that the Conservatives were the natural home for snobs, but, criminally, they have now been joined by the "People's party".