The Labour Party will be Left for dead by the public after Corbyn’s re-election
The party has been taken over by a hard-left faction which has been branded electoral suicide
IT’S often joked that Labour’s 1983 manifesto was the longest suicide note in history.
Not any more. After a two-month campaign, Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election as Labour leader guarantees a Conservative government for the foreseeable future.
It is electoral suicide. This isn’t just our opinion. It’s the message of every opinion poll since he became leader.
It’s the view of the vast majority of Labour MPs, who pushed through a vote of no confidence in Mr Corbyn in June.
And it’s the view of the Shadow Cabinet members who resigned rather than serve under a man they knew was a walking disaster.
But our poll today shows the depth of Labour’s crisis is worse even than many of them feared.
Under Mr Corbyn, Labour is already irrelevant.
It doesn’t matter what policies the party has, because it’s never going to be in a position to implement them. Now it’s clear that Labour is on the edge of oblivion.
The party’s problem is that it has been taken over by a bunch of hard-left activists who live in fantasy land. Decent British voters view their politics — and their behaviour — with horror.
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But that genie can’t be put back in the bottle. They’ve taken control.
Labour is now effectively dead as anything more than a fringe party.
But democracy needs a credible opposition to keep the Government on its toes.
Since that is no longer going to be Labour, the challenge for the party’s sensible MPs is to work out what comes next.
Union’s taking the GP
OUR revelation that the British Medical Association has been discussing GP strikes shows just how ruthlessly cynical it really is.
It suspended its planned junior doctor strikes when it realised the public had seen through its greed.
Weeks before announcing strikes it welcomed the Government’s concessions.
The BMA’s claims to be concerned about patients are pure spin. In reality it’s always been one of the most hardcore unions.
In the days when doctors were treated with deference, the BMA got away with it.
Its behaviour is so militant the deference has gone. The BMA is seen in its true light.
It’s a Vard-knock life
YOU don’t have to be a Leicester fan to revel in Jamie Vardy’s success.
His rags to riches story struck a chord with all football fans last season.
Now his autobiography shows just how much he’s turned around his life.
It’s a tale that’s truly inspirational.
