You need to read the rest rather than take it out of context.
It was in context to this:
However party members are more radical than the average voter so involving them in internal decision making has shifted the Labour parties ideological profile to the extremes and away from the views that a majority of Labour voters represent. What that does is to diminish the capacity of the party to perform their representative functions.
A party can be internally democratic or electorally successful but not both at the same time
Read more:
https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/jeremy-corbyn-should-be-hanged.526472/page-2#ixzz5v5OnDY00
Surely the Conservatives narrowing the choice to two before letting the members vote is less democratic
See above.
Regarding the Conservatives, sure thats not democratic either -but that needs to be discussed in context with the Tories, not as a justification for the Labour situation.
suppose that makes sense when regarding those who voted Labour the election before last.
However, that was not what the Labour Party was traditionally supposed to be.
If you are saying parties are not allowed to change, then the problem was Blair pretending to be Labour; not Corbyn
Corbyn and his closest advisors are Idealogues. Andrew Murray for example ex communist party member and public school background. He and his ideas arent working class.
Momentum is a middle class activist movement. It does not represent traditional working class values.
The worrying truth is that Momentum is actually a middle-class movement exploiting the alienation now felt by university graduates, the public sector, remainers and metropolitan voters
https://www.totalpolitics.com/artic...mentum-–-according-theresa-may’s-policy-chief
Mr Corbyn is in fact presiding over the takeover of the party by three groups: ethnic minorities, particularly Muslims; public-sector professionals; and frustrated millennials, most of them the university-educated children of the salaried middle class, who can’t get their feet on the property ladder. The latest membership figures show that 77% of party members are middle-class
IPSOS Mori estimates that, in the June 2017 general election, 73% of ethnic-minority voters voted Labour compared with 39% of ethnically white voters. Thirteen of the party’s 20 best performances were in heavily Muslim areas. Labour’s best chance of holding onto the Midlands lies in mobilising the Muslim vote, rather than in appealing to Jaguar LandRover workers
https://www.economist.com/bagehots-...er-the-party-of-the-traditional-working-class
If your argument Corbyn is changing the Labour party values back towards the traditional working class voters, then that doesnt hold true.
In any case, my argument is not what Corbyn represents, it is the fact the party members that voted for him are not representative of the traditional Labour voter.
It depends whether you value principles or just lie to win
I dont understand. Corbyn could be a leader of a party that embraces moderate and harder left values. That way it would make irself electable.
Instead Corbyn has created a party within a party.
Have you seen who Johnson is surrounding himself with
Yes, which makes a good case for having a strong opposition not a weak one.
Is that not allowed?
How many socialists are there in the Tory party
Take Frank Field: look at his campaigns, he has been an ardent campaigner agaanst inequality. He was a valuable member of Labour and hardly a Tory.
Sarah Champion played a key role in the Rochdale abuse case - again a valuable MP, hardly a Tory.
Chuka Ummuna: Chuka Umunna knows something is up: ‘we are a deeply divided country … and our politics is broken’.
1 But the reader of
What are Progressives For? will come away with a strange picture of just what broke British politics. Umunna is clear that Brexit is a ‘symptom, not a cause’,
2 and he certainly has a long list of other symptoms including inequality, homelessness, the productivity gap, crime, and child poverty. Surprisingly, Umunna identifies division in the political parties as the ultimate source of Britain’s problems
http://www.renewal.org.uk/blog/politics-for-the-twentieth-century-chuka-umunnas-third-way
So Chuka Umunna is deeply concerned about poverty, inequality. Do you think those values lie with Labour or Tory?
Those that simply think these are Blairites or red Tories are not looking at the people and what they represent.
Why then, are you worried about him
Am I not allowed to discuss the Labour party.
Your point here seems rather a strange one.