Jonathan Freedland at the Grauniad’s CiF on that election result.
My comment:
By the end of the 1970s it was obvious that (for want of a better description) left-wing economic notions were found to be incompatible with reality - they simply did not and could not work. This led Labour into the wilderness for decades as they learnt they had to ditch left-wing economic notions. Once they did that they got back into power.
Unfortunately Labour still retained left-wing notions of how society - apart from economics - worked. These too have now been found to be incompatible with reality. It is simply not possible to centrally control society and to social engineer it into a politically-correct shape. Thins like feminism, anti-racism, multiculturalism, welfareism and so forth have been found not to solve social problems, but to exacerbate them, destroying society rather than strengthening it.
So, Labour will have to spend however many year it takes in the wilderness until that learn to live without these other left-wing notions.
Sad really, because I used to be a believer too, all through those post-1979 years, desperately wanting a Labour government, even one with Blair, right up to the time we got one.
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