Despite the madness in the Tory Party Labour are trailing in the polls. Yet never have we needed them more desperately. After years of Tory austerity and their war against public services and the poor it is time Labour took over and set an agenda for fairness and equality. But right at the moment we most need them they are busy tearing themselves to bits yet again. We have had the Foot controversy and the Blair/Brown divisions. We have had the terrible division that led to the ridiculous Lib/Dem fiasco that allowed the years of Thatcher devastation. What we desperately need is for Labour to put aside its senseless squabbles, bury the hatchet metaphorically instead of battering away at each other with it, and agree on a compromise agenda that will put the country first and the Nasty Party as the real enemy.
The Tory Party sorted its leadership crisis with ruthless efficiency. Labour need to do the same.
Right now the grassroots are at odds with their own parliamentary party. The Trade Unions are also at war with the MPs. The leadership is beleaguered and does not have a viable shadow cabinet. The media are loving it and stirring the pot with delight. The electorate watch on in disbelief and don’t see an electable party.
Angela Eagle is not a viable candidate.
Is Corbyn capable of leading and forming a viable cabinet?
Let us get the leadership election sorted quickly, all gather around the winner and take the battle to the real foe!
This is a mess of our own doing. The worst that can happen would be another split which lets the tyrannous Tories off the hook as it did in the Thatcher years.
In this crisis the country surely has to come first?