The comments accompanying the CWU’s endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn are illuminating and alarming.
The Prime Minister’s success springs from a preference, new to Westminster, for Cabinet ministers who actually know about their departments.
Also: Scottish Labour fear far-left infiltration; Plaid debate fate of former leader; Welsh Labour criticise ‘toxic’ leadership race; and nationalists bid to rechristen Londonderry.
The arch-Blairite commentator takes on the face of the Militant tendency about whether or not Labour can ever win from the hard left.
“I don’t have any evidence of widespread infiltration into the party, and I think it might play into this idea that the powers that be are trying to stop this because they don’t like the way it’s going.”
Corbyn’s latest wheeze cites an old formula: grab power to the centre; restrict producer variety and user choice; and waste lots of money.
Apparently Neil Kinnock should have been talking about nuclear disarmament instead.
The labour front-runner mulls public ownership and the politics of revolution with Andrew Marr.
Inside the party or out, the union barons’ tame MPs will be a plague on any leader who attempts to move the party towards the centre.
“The real way we can be an anti-austerity party is having a strong economy, having sound public finances, backing great businesses…”
Yes, it really is spelt like that. Plus: I bet four candidates go through to the London Conservative Mayoral primary, and that Yvette Cooper is Labour’s next leader.
Labour’s Corbyn troubles open up new opportunities for next May’s contest. A bigger Open Primary than planned offers a means of taking them.
Plus: the four things Labour must do to get back into the game.
The ideological gap between Labour members and MPs is growing wider and wider.
Why and how the Conservatives should work with the Lib Dems in this Parliament.