I suspect - and hope – that the Gang of Seven will fade into insignificance, just as 1980s Gang of Four eventually did.
One of the 7, on Sky News this morning, said she had received ‘massive’ backing from her constituents for her stance in resigning.
How massive? Was the number of backers anywhere near to the increase in size of her majority in 2017? Len McCLuskey asked during a street-interview yesterday whether any of them imagined that the increase they all experienced then came solely from their personal charisma. If so, he suggested, they were living in cloud-cuckoo-land or words very close in effect to those.
Clearly, despite their stated attitudes, it is virtually certain that none of them failed to benefit from the pre-election Labour Party promotion and assistance in the form of party political broadcasting, leafletting, door-to-door canvassing and so forth that all Labour candidates enjoyed.
Their failure to resign and face re-election is a slap in the face to every single one of their constituents who put a cross in the appropriate place with a view simply to getting a Labour Government!