John Prescott said

he much preferred Tony Benn on policy but thought him unelectable by the general public, so voted for Healey (this is the '81 deputy leadership contest I'm talking about).

Whereas Blair showed the danger of compromising policy for the sake of electability.

You can see where I'm going with that.

It's all gone quiet on electoral reform since the election, but honestly the way forward I'd prefer is a "proper" left party (let's call it Labour), a centre-left party (let's call it the SDP), a centre-right party (let's call it "the wet Tories") and a bunch of Mail-reading c**ts (let's call them UKIP, but the right wing of the Tory party would also fit). Most people I talk to fall more easily into one of those categories than the muddle we had at the last election (and God knows what we have at the minute). Some form of PR and probably coalitions forever; but I think that's better than the mad rush for the mythical Centre we have at the minute.

Corbyn isn't very electable in traditional terms but he's a genuine bloke who says what he thinks. Not many in politics like that (there are a few on all sides, but most MPs of all parties are just clones of each other).

Posted By: Old Man, Aug 6, 00:05:04