The Labour party includes many sensible and intelligent people who want what is best for our country. But all of them are currently gnawing their hands and weeping into their sleeves as they watch their party prepare to take this great leap backwards. I know of Labour politicians who hoped that putting Jeremy Corbyn up for the leadership would shine a light on him and his ilk and thus chase out for ever the IRA/Hezbollah wing of their party. Alas for them the infection turned out to be what the body most welcomed, and so here the sensible members of the party sit, sadly mulling their electoral mortality.
In such times I feel that it is incumbent upon those of us who wish the Labour party well to provide some comfortable words. I have been thinking long and hard and can think only of this: ‘at least you’re not the Lib Dems’. When that party recently had a leadership election nobody even thought of swamping them in order to rig the vote. And surely not only because the Lib Dems are known to be a closed-shop of a party, dedicated solely to the task of keeping a small group of well-off, white, middle-class bisexuals in employment, but because the Lib Dems are never going to be near power again. Not at any point. Indeed in the coming years the nearest any Lib Dem MP will get to power is when it’s his turn to be lights-monitor at the party’s HQ. So, decent Labour-ites, my helpful words are: take some comfort in the fact that yours is still a party worth crashing.
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