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Not sure about the position of the electorate in this grid. If this is the case, why have Labour won all three by-elections since Corbyn took over, not to mention the Mayoral election?

Perhaps re-positioning the electorate to the middle would be more accurate - i.e. balancing where the media claims it to be, and what appears to be happening at the polls?
Err, because all the by-elections were in safe Labour seats.

London mayor is different, and I'm not sure how much it has to do with people liking Corbyn.
No one can know where the electorate sits on this issue. One thing can be sure - it is more representative than the Tory membership which doesn't get a mention in the table above this one. And another thing - if Corbyn is not put on the ballot, membership will more than halve overnight, because the current parliamentary party is not representative of Labour voters, let alone the membership. Party funding will disappear rapidly and union support begin to fall away.
@Brian - interesting points, but re: "Party funding will disappear rapidly and union support begin to fall away"

Which alternative political party do you think the unions would put their support behind, if not Labour?

Or do you mean that they'd actively undermine any new Labour leader?
If there are many Labour MPs who do not represent the membership of their party, surely it is time for deselections?

Trades unions have been known to remove their support from the Labour Party, without necessarily moving their support to another political party.
I think Brian is right - membership will drop off without Corbyn as he was the one that got young people interested as he offered a true alternative to the other parties, and he got older labour voters who had lost hope in the centre left interested again in original labour values. At least that's how I see it.
It is of course entirely likely that the electorate's view moves over the years or decades. Whilst You Know Who clearly captured the zeitgeist of the late 90's perhaps some people are now ready for a return to more progressive values. Is the rise of Podemos in Spain and Syriza perhaps not evidence of this. Of course whether Jeremy Corbyn is the right man for the job or not I'm not so sure.

Isn't the media always going to be a problem for the left though? Just look at the way Ed Milliband was portrayed. He makes the current bunch look positively insane though.

Is it all his fault though? If he'd not stood and his big brother had got in it might have all been so different.

Well this member will go if Corbyn goes! And I only joined last month!

The whole coup had been planned months in advance, and if that wasn't deceitful enough, they timed it to coincide with the Referendum results when Labour should have been hammering home their position in the wake of the ensuing Tory chaos!

For me that is unforgivable, and will have cost them a lot in voter confidence.
The Labour Party are finished - they let themselves be hijacked by a bunch of narcissitic, morally imbecilic extremists, and are now paying the price. I thought Blair's lot were bad enough, but Corbyn's lot absolutely take the biscuit. Utterly unelectable and beyond the pale.
Apparently the electorate are too stupid to vote correctly in the EU referendum, but they are smart enough to choose the correct Labour leader - so which is it?

(According to social media anyone who votes Tory is stupid by default)
I think it would be a mistake for Corbyn supporters to throw in their membership if he's blocked from standing in the leadership rerun. We'll need those members to still be in the constituencies when it comes to selecting new MPs to stand in the next general election. 

It's revealing that JC is being pilloried by his MPs for not campaigning actively enough for Remain in the referendum, while Theresa May is regarded by her MPs as the ideal candidate for Tory PM for the same reason!
Socialists cannot win. Either the Labour party veer to the right (Blairist position), and then Labour has a chance of being elected, but no chance of introducing socialism. Or the Labour party moves leftwards, giving socialism a theoretical chance, except that Labour is then guaranteed to lose all general elections.

(Inequality got worse under Blair/Brown).
When enough people are sick and tired of executive pay outstripping non-executive pay, then there will be a drift back towards "socialism". So long as the cleaning contract goes to the lowest bidder whilst the directorships go to the highest bidder, inequality will grow. There's always going to BE inequality, it's a fact of life that provides the impetus to take on responsibility and work harder and contribute more, but the problem we face today is the inequality that damages the fabric of society. New Labour was a mockery of the old socialist values; more akin to Thatcherism Lite than anything else.
Isn't the problem that the media read by the people who would be most helped by socialism is the most right wing?
The Conservatives managed to wrap up a brutal leadership contest in two and a half weeks. Labour will now be tearing itself apart for two and a half months.










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