Is This The End?

[ToraToraTora]

or just the beginning of the end for the Labour party?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58720108
When their leader gets booed during his key note conference speech, what hope is there? When the leader and the party polls less than a mid term mid crises government, what hope is there? Should Labour disband and form a new party without the hard left? Will labour ever win again?

[davebro]

//Should Labour disband and form a new party without the hard left?//

Yes - how can they possibly claim to be a single party when they are so totally divided between the socialist idealists & those who hope to gain support from the electorate?

[mushroom25]

i'm not sure they've ever been a single party - in the 1950s there were Bevanites and Gaitskellites at each other's throats.......

[ToraToraTora]

I think the hard left in the party are just happy being pure in their ideology, I don't think they really want to get elected.

[naomi24]

Oh I think they want to get elected, ttt, they just don’t seem to be bright enough to realise that very few want what they’re offering. They’re clinging to a philosophy that is long since redundant.

[ichkeria]

You plainly weren’t watching the speech: there were a few heckles, hardly surprising given the backdrop, but it sounded pretty desperate and was immediate drowned out by spontaneous applause.
Labour effectively IS a new party after the Corbyn nightmare. They may not win the next election on their own given the magnitude of the swing needed to do it, but it did feel like a weight was finally lifting.
Despite the isolated howls of protest

[Gromit]

I googled ‘Boris getting heckled’ with the view of posting a video. But there were too many to choose from. Mostly unimpressed voters.

[ToraToraTora]

yep but amazingly gromit he'll still peece the next election! how sheet must the opposition be?