>> Hopefully the slightly left of centre will win out over the far left nutters as
>> our democracy relies on an effective opposition to keep the worst excesses of the government
>> under scrutiny. So my money would be on Keir Starmer, possibly Thornberry.
Both Starmer and Thornberry were sidelined during the election which tells you what the controlling forces in the party think of them. If the same people choose the next leader it won't be either of those two or anyone in that mould and Labour will get nowhere.
I've just been listening to Mark Serwotka on last night's Newsnight, and he stuck by the 'ideology' and lauded Corbyn for increasing Labour membership x 3. Unless a new wave of people join to outvote the far left then Labour will continue to go backwards. I'm not even sure that they can, I think Labour might have changed its voting system (again). Momentum et al will not win them an election, the disaster in the heartlands shows how little they understand the people who were their base.
It's looking less and less likely that Labour's post mortem review will break out of the groupthink that sunk them in the election. Tragic.
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