Euan McColm: Labour on collision course with reality
THE temptation is to give the Labour Party the benefit of the doubt, even when the evidence that it’s doomed is so compelling.
To write off Labour under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn is to ignore the enthusiasm of the tens of thousands of new party members who swept him to victory against three mainstream candidates. To suggest that, for all the optimistic engagement of his supporters, Corbyn is heading for failure on a thwocking great scale seems a little cruel.
Advertisement
Hide AdAdvertisement
Hide AdAnd yet, with each passing day, it becomes more difficult to conceive of a set of circumstances that might see Corbyn become the next Prime Minister. The past 10 days have been a disaster for Labour. Only the wildest-eyed, true-believin’ Corbynista could argue differently.