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Labour Meltdown?
The question now is not whether Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party is fit to govern, but whether it is fit to contest an election.
These are truly extraordinary times. I can remember a number of occasions when major political parties simply fell apart – most commonly after a spectacular defeat – but never before in the opening days of a general election campaign.
It is impossible to exaggerate the political significance, not to say the emotional impact, of lifelong Labour stalwarts actually advising their supporters to vote Conservative: to commit, in effect, what would once have been seen as mortal sin.
This is not just a campaign mishap. It is a historic milestone in our national politics. The major Opposition party is no longer functional. The governing party – whatever your view of it – is the only credible one that can be supported.
Janet Daley in today's Telegraph
Is anyone planning to vote Labour & if so, why?
These are truly extraordinary times. I can remember a number of occasions when major political parties simply fell apart – most commonly after a spectacular defeat – but never before in the opening days of a general election campaign.
It is impossible to exaggerate the political significance, not to say the emotional impact, of lifelong Labour stalwarts actually advising their supporters to vote Conservative: to commit, in effect, what would once have been seen as mortal sin.
This is not just a campaign mishap. It is a historic milestone in our national politics. The major Opposition party is no longer functional. The governing party – whatever your view of it – is the only credible one that can be supported.
Janet Daley in today's Telegraph
Is anyone planning to vote Labour & if so, why?
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The Labour Party has been disintegrating over the past three years under Corbyn’s so-called leadership and it is only so striking now because we are in a period of a General Election. Best for Labour to take its likely beating, get rid of Magic Grandpa and start again to be a mainstream party. Oh yes, I am not beating the drum for the other lot.
Don't be fooled.
There are many, many people in this country for whom voting for anybody other than the Labour candidate is a capital offence. It's worse than shooting a puppy tied up in a sack. They just don't do it. "My father voted Labour and his father before him did. So I vote Labour". They will poll a decent number of votes from those people alone. Add to that the half of London who will vote Labour and they will still be a "nuisance" in the forthcoming GE. But the biggest nuisance of all will be the so-called Liberal Democrats.
There are many, many people in this country for whom voting for anybody other than the Labour candidate is a capital offence. It's worse than shooting a puppy tied up in a sack. They just don't do it. "My father voted Labour and his father before him did. So I vote Labour". They will poll a decent number of votes from those people alone. Add to that the half of London who will vote Labour and they will still be a "nuisance" in the forthcoming GE. But the biggest nuisance of all will be the so-called Liberal Democrats.
he did quite well too, despite the confident hopes of the Conservatives. As for "diehard" Labour supporters, I think far more of them are ready to change their votes than Tory voters who know their leaders have been increasingly incompetent since they came to power, and yet would sooner, er, die in a ditch than vote for anyone else.
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