The deadline to vote in Labour's leadership election is tomorrow. There is no candidate we can endorse. None have grasped the scale of Labour's defeat or its meaning. 1/5
Labour is lost. It is lost in England, lost in Scotland and looking more lost in Wales by the day. The Corbyn project completed the gentrification that began under New Labour and now we have lost touch with the language, culture and priorities of the working class. 2/5
Labour has turned inwards. No leadership contender has risen to the occasion. It is a strange and sad time in the life of our country. The campaign has had a surreal quality to it, so divorced has it been from the real questions facing our country. 3/5
Obsessed with internal process and fringe issues, Labour has had nothing to say on the costs of globalisation to industry, on supply chain and national security, and on dignified working class jobs. Some leading figures have even come out to bat for totalitarian China. 4/5
Labour abandoned the working class and now the favour has been returned; we can't say it hasn't been coming. It's a long way back. If there is hope, it lies with the rediscovery of our own radical tradition. 5/5
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