Sleaford wasn’t terribly good for Labour, was it? Nor indeed Richmond Park. Sleaford was never very Labour friendly – although, even given that, the party’s performance was staggeringly abject. Richmond has not been historically Labour-friendly – but given its current trajectory, towards the achingly liberal and affluent London upper class, you might have expected a better performance than the one they turned in (with an excellent candidate, incidentally, in Christian Wolmar). It has long been a given that Labour will lose vast numbers of seats in the north of England (and the midlands), in a similar fashion to its capitulation, north of the border, to the SNP. But now the interesting question is will it be outflanked even within the areas it feels secure – the well-orf inner cities? By the Greens and the Lib Dems? You would not bet against it. I think we are seeing, right before us, the death of a once noble and decent political party. Led, for sure, by agit-prop cretins, but also under the aegis of a tranche of opinion which simply has no hold, anywhere, for anyone.
Meanwhile, Momentum, the party grouping which ensured Corbyn was re-elected, has suffered a rather horrid schism. On the one side are the Trots, who are trying to take it over. And on the other, the snowflakes – the handwringing safe space LGBTQNS left-liberals – and the desiccated Bennites who are whining about being bullied and forced out. Someone give those snowflakes an ice-pick each – not that it will do much good. This is a battle between the Judean Peoples Front and the People’s Front of Judea and of not the slightest relevance to the average British voter. If you’re me, it’s sad. I don’t suppose it is for many other people.
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