If the Labour leadership has taught us anything it is that, as Kent Brockman once observed, democracy simply doesn’t work. The people’s party has asked the people, and the people are going to drive them off a cliff.
One or two journalists have speculated about whether the Tory Right could ever do something similar.
To some extent it’s a moot point because the set-up of the Conservative leadership election favours the moderates, by allowing only two candidates to go forward to the membership for voting.
But imagine, say, a situation in which three Tory wets of the Kenneth Clarke or Heseltine ilk were running for the member’s votes against a right-wing backbencher who wanted to bring back hanging (an idea as popular but as outside the Overton window as many of Corbyn’s schemes).
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