Very bad things, probably.
One former frontbencher welcomed Jeremy Corbyn's pledge to "wipe the slate clean" following his re-election but said that if he continued to criticise the leadership then he fully expected them to "unleash the dogs of war". And he is not the only one expecting to be mauled.
He believes Momentum - the group set up by veteran leftwinger Jon Lansman - is likely to pursue a strategy of deselection of anti-Corbyn MPs. "Jeremy will stay above it all, of course, adopting his 'see no evil' approach. He will say it's just a matter of local Labour parties taking individual democratic decisions. The boundary changes will unlock the whole process."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37449631
Political wilderness and probably a split in the party.
ReplyDeleteThere are substantial advantages for Labour being in the wilderness at this point in time. Jeremy Corbyn's Pyrrhic victory will sort out Labour's haphazard approach to UK's domestic politics. A general election will sort out the rest - the sooner the better. It is not an election Labour can win, but it must be endured. For Labour to ever win again, it must present a coherent message - a message it does not yet have.
ReplyDeleteThe Lord Protector Theresa May will wear out her welcome with random precision - is that mixing of metaphors, putting Oliver Cromwell and Roger Waters in the same sentence? The Tories had their day, had their referendum, made big promises which cannot be kept. Now, like some Grimm's Fairy Tale, the Conservatives face the nightmare of what follows on having foolish wishes granted literally.
Labour needs a message. When Brexit empties the City's skyscrapers of their Euroswap clerks and the Russian oligarchs have put their Mayfair mansions on the market, that message will have been written. Jeremy Corbyn will have written it.
Dan Weese possibly true, also +1 for the Pink Floyd reference.
ReplyDeleteAs I said, this is a vote of no confidence from the membership to the blairites. They need to stop stalling and realize that blairism is a pox on mankind.
ReplyDeletesince 2010 we have lost 56 seats to the snp.
ReplyDeletewe lost about 10 seats from 4 million pensioners votes thanks to gordon brown.
we will lose about 30 seats in boundary changes.
we have probably lost about 5 seats due to the blairites resigning.
jeremy has now got a lot of thinking to do do now for us to win an election.