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\u00a0Britain, 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\u00a0has added more than 200,000 members to \u00a0the Labour membership to make it the largest political party in the UK by far.<\/p>\n
But the big snag to most of the parliamentary party is that Corbyn\u00a0is 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 \u00a0impoverished large parts of the United Kingdom, that the key votes are \u00a0to be harvested to give a crushing Labour win in 2020. These\u00a0forgotten\u00a0political areas where UKIP picked up over 3 million votes and which New Labour abandoned, are also the ones\u00a0that voted Brexit. That\u00a0is not Corbyn’s fault. It is\u00a0New 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 \u00a02020. Just like the SDP in 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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