I suspect that this will be the last event to be organized by the remnants of New Labour, whose claim to organise a government is undermined by their inability to organise themselves. On the lunchtime news I heard clips of those who claimed there was ‘large scale infiltration’ of those hostile to the party in its new list of those entitled to vote. Other genuine supporters had received emails declining their vote. It was an inspired idea to throw the election open to anybody willing to pay three pounds or whatever and in doing so all but fools would know that there will be both tactical and hostile voting, as in any democratic process which is open and free. This is quite different to fraud which involves goldfish voting or multiple votes cast by the same person.
There are now more people with full membership, affiliation, or registered supporters of Labour than all the rest of the political parties in the UK put together. Over 600,000 are entitled to vote apparently. There are fewer than 140,000 in the Tory party and if a handful of sillies amongst them think it would be fun to vote for Corbyn to scupper Labour’s chances at the next general election, let them. They could end up in the very same place as the Tory grandees in 1945 who laughed at the notion that the country could possibly choose the mild mannered near invisible Attlee over the larger than life war hero, Churchill. As for the Oxbridge New Labour gang; they fear not just losing the vote, but losing the party as well. The people are preparing to take it back.