YMB is right when he says that Labour originally came to power to fight for the working man. Unfortunately for Labour - and fortunately for society - the working man is no longer the downtrodden grafter of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Labour doesn’t seem to have noticed that life has changed as have aspirations, ambitions, and expectations. I remember when Jeremy Corbyn first treated us to his pitch which was to ‘build factories’ to provide jobs without ever telling us what these factories would produce or how they were to compete in a world market whilst managing to pay the fantastic wages he promised. Labour needs to get its head around the fact that however much they yearn for the proven social disaster that is their brand of Socialism, they are not offering what the working man wants - and after yesterday’s performance they really shouldn’t find it too difficult … although they will. Labour is a dead duck.
I would love to know what Comrade Mikey would make of it all now.