At last New Labour in parliament judges its moment has come and is mounting its attack on Corbyn’s leadership. This Blog exhaustively has studied why Labour lost in 2015 and where the votes to give it victory were to be found and they are not where New Labour supposes. Corbyn has the biggest popular mandate of any political leader in Britain, signatures on an online petition backing him are approaching 180,000, Labour upped its vote in the two by-elections under his leadership by a greater margin than polls suggested and did much better than everybody was spinning in the local elections, where Labour’s vote was nearly 4% up and the Tories 4% down. He has added more than 200,000 members to the Labour membership to make it the largest political party in the UK by far.
But the big snag to most of the parliamentary party is that Corbyn is far to the left of their establishment sentiments. They are too blinkered to see that it is in the unfairness and inequality of our banker dominated economy which New Labour helped build, which has abandoned the old industrial heartland and impoverished large parts of the United Kingdom, that the key votes are to be harvested to give a crushing Labour win in 2020. These forgotten political areas where UKIP picked up over 3 million votes and which New Labour abandoned, are also the ones that voted Brexit. That is not Corbyn’s fault. It is New Labour’s. If the parliamentary party goes to war with its members in the country, it will have signed its death warrant, which will be carried out in a spectacular electoral massacre in 2020. Just like the SDP in 1983.