Good on the Tories but as ever with the Guardian there’s no reckoning with the Labour right. Until there is, the Party will struggle. They are an institutional roadblock to any sort of progress. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/07/hartlepool-labour-same-old-tories-conservatives-keir-starmer

We have to find some way of communicating this to the soft/centre left, the honest liberals, the greens. For whatever reason, the Guardian- the liberal paper of record, effectively- don’t want to do it. I and several others have begged and pleaded with them to no avail.

A dry, factual piece in MSM on what the Labour right believes and how it functions would go a long way towards smashing it to bits. Most people sympathetic to the Labour Party would be appalled by the reality.

Unfortunately, although few people share their politics, a lot of them seem to work in legacy media.

This is one of several important questions that need to be posed in mainstream media. Aditya’s done a great job but pretty much any seasoned Labour activist could explain why most of what he’s advocated is made impossible in practice. https://twitter.com/duncanjdavis/status/1390957133655576581

A factual account of what happened with the COU, of how regions operate (especially wrt complaints), of what right wing Labour councils and councillors do and say... this would be quite shocking to many Guardian/Huffpo readers or left-leaning BBC viewers.

But there was a huge, detailed report into how right wing Party bureaucrats were behaving between 2015 and 2019 and it was all but ignored by liberal media.

While campaigning for the Labour leadership, Starmer wrote for the Guardian about the need to make ‘the moral case for socialism’. I’d imagine many Guardian readers voted for him on the basis of this piece and his ten pledges.

Surely they have a right to know why he almost immediately abandoned these postures? You can’t explain it without an understanding of the balance of forces in the Labour Party and the beliefs and interests of the Blairites and the old Party right.

The Labour Party is dying. It was dying long before 2019. This isn’t happening because the people of Britain are all shiftless racists for whom no iteration of the Party will ever be sufficiently right wing.

It’s not happening because of Corbyn, and it’s not happening *in spite of* the people who want to drive his supporters out of political life. There are nuts and bolts factors in all this that don’t require the cod sociology of visits to artisan pizzerias or bigotry safaris.

Even a clear-eyed analysis of the ideological commitments of someone like Wes Streeting or Rachel Reeves and a comparison with those of eg Andy Burnham, let alone John McDonnell, would provide an insight into why the Party doesn’t work.

Seriously, just let your readers know that these people believe in markets and foreign interventions, and will say that anyone who doesn’t believe in that is ‘helping the Tories’ and go from there. Let them make up their own minds.

You wouldn’t have to say ‘the Labour right are evil bastards’. You say ‘the Labour right’s beliefs are...’, explore whether this politics is popular (I mean...) then explore why and how they’ll stop at nothing to ensure the Party doesn’t deviate from this politics.

What you have to get away from is allowing them to talk in bland soundbites about fairness and what have you. Fairness is an amorphous concept- it means different things to different people.