fahrenheit451:131

There is something singularly maudlin when something or someone you knew had no chance in succeeding, fulfills that premonition. Two short years ago,the tribalist petty demagogues and largely ineffectual activists from across the far left spectrum danced around the totem poles of their own ancestral delusions. They'd paid their £3 and had voted for Corbyn and lo and behold the great non-hope had won! Then the scurrilous,mendacious cynical hypocrites of mainstream Labour set about spending over a year conducting a putative Party civil War that ended with Corbyn getting re-elected with a larger mandate than previously anticipated. The truth of all of that is that History has passed all of the Labour Party by.The Men of Action who've so dramatically reappeared on the centre stage of History are not from the ranks of the antideluvian Left. Two years on from Corbyn's corporeal manifestation in front of his newly acquired acolytes, The Independent opines :-

The only way Corbyn can succeed, is by taking the sharp left turn that he was elected to do. The people also need to see an authoritative and relentless streak that has so far been absent from his leadership. In short, Corbyn must fight back. He needs to take control of the party before he can take control of the country, otherwise he is nothing but a sitting duck.

One of the ways this can be achieved is through enabling the democratic right of CLPs to reselect and deselect their parliamentary candidates, and organising in order to ensure that young, up and coming, “fire in the belly” left wingers replace those who are actively seeking to undermine the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn.

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" Need to see an authoritative and relentless streak that has so far been absent.." 

The actual reason for this noted absence of such a streak is simply that it isn't in his character let alone his ideological DNA.

Corbyn is a metropolitan flaneur,a weedy disingenuous understatement of a corporeal non entity.Then again, the rest of Labour's 200+ antidemocratic seditionist parliamentary rabble don't even make it past the amoeba stage.

Left and Right dissolved a long long time ago. And Labour along with them. Amen.