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Hefty
Is losing the new winning?
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/09/12/the-newest-trend-in-politics-losing-to-win/
I do hope so. Lots of Blairites have been running around going OH MY GOD HE'S GOING TO DESTROY THE LABOUR PARTY but they don't get it: that's what it needs. Corbyn will never be PM, yes, but the party needs to be destroyed to be rebuilt. It needs to rise out of its own remains like the proverbial phoenix. Corbyn could create the conditions to let new and emerging talent within the party finally have a go at the wheel now all of the old Blairite wooden spoons* will finally move out of the way and let someone else have a go.
The "they'll be unelectable for a decade" bollocks is so tiring. Yes, that's right, because you all saw the SNP post-referendum bounce coming didn't you, and Corbyn getting elected by a massive landslide.
Welcome to the new politics: nobody knows what the fuck might happen next and it's actually quite exciting!
I am also quite excited about Cameron trying his yah-boo-sucks-public-school-debating approach on Corbyn then panicking as he realises it won't work because he doesn't actually give a shit, won't rise to the bait and isn't another career politician who will react in exactly the way he expects.
Actually I'm very excited about that bit.
*Stewart Lee back in August:
Meanwhile, the centre-right squabble about whether to allow leftwing people to vote for an old leftwing man to lead an old leftwing party, or whether to allow it to be led by one of three wooden spoons with faces drawn on them that, if viewed from a certain angle, might look reassuringly like some of the people that are already in power.