Corbyn has announced he intends to lead a period of reflection by the party in order to better understand why they lost the general election. Once the lessons have been learned, he will step down and a new leader, better suited to the voters will replace him.
I can you exactly why this process of reflection will be a waste of time. I’ll give you both the short and the long versions:
The Short Version: there is a fundamental disconnect between the PLP and the electorate that isn’t going to disappear anytime soon.
The Long Version:
Anyone who sees the direction of travel of Labour knows they are just going to keep on making the same mistakes.
The reasons people didn’t vote for them are:
1) They are socialists.
2) They want to gerrymander future elections by reducing voting age to 16.
3) They support the whole social justice movement that is so divisive and overturns merit as a basis of success.
4) They are weak on law and order.
5) They advocate mass immigration (more gerrymandering and more social justice).
6) They dislike the UK: they take no pride in British history, traditions or culture.
7) Their position on Brexit. What a joke that was. No further comment required.
8) Anti-semitism: I don’t think anti-semitism itself was a significant factor. It was more what that anti-semitism meant: Labour presented themselves as the party of tolerance and diversity and inclusivity. The repeated anti-semitism issues showed Labour to be a bunch of hypocrites.
9) Dislike of Corbyn: True, Corbyn has no sense of humour but that’s true of all Lefties. Lefties take themselves very seriously. They really are the roundheads of the 21st century.
10) Labour offers no cultural security to white Britons. There is a feeling that Labour would sell out the indigenous population in the name of multiculturalism
Most of the factors above are locked in as central to how the PLP see themselves. The easiest positions to address would be Brexit and Corbyn. Corbyn is going so that takes care of that (and, hopefully, takes the anti-semitism issue with it) and Brexit will no longer be an issue by the next election. Everything else can remain the same. Job done. The PLP will convince themselves that nothing else needs to change. They will then lose the 2024 election.
Furthermore, Labour will almost certainly select a woman as next leader. In 2019 a left-wing woman will always be a passionate advocate of social justice and fairness and feelings and so will double down on those social justice issues that cause so much division in our society.
In short, there is a fundamental disconnect between the PLP and the electorate that isn’t going to disappear anytime soon.
Update 29 Jan 2020:
An Labour Party investigation has exonerated Corbyn from any blame in the election:
https://www.ft.com/content/5dc2f7b0-41f5-11ea-a047-eae9bd51ceba
It appears that Brexit was solely responsible! So they are still not prepared to consider any of the 10 points listed above. I cannot see an election win any time soon for Labour.
As of today the 2 favourites for the leadership position are Rebecca Long-Bailey and Kier Starmer with RLB probably most likely to win. She full heartedly continues to support the manifesto. As such, she will continue Corbyn’s work with similar levels of success.
Atticus Fox 