Love for Labour lost

Voters rejected Corbyn despite great policies ROOKIE MP GOT LOST IN LABYRINTH

WE’VE got five years. That’s a heavy sentence for all the innocents who have taken so much punishment already.

But that’s how long we can expect Boris Johnson, with a blank cheque written by a despairing electorate, to reign in Downing Street.

Five years of continuing child poverty, scandalous under funding of the NHS, never-ending Brexit, rising homelessness, lost opportunities and a broken country remaining broken.

The election was a catastrophe for Labour. But it will be worse for the country. Nothing in the Tory party campaign offers a way out of the chaos which Britain so desperately needs. Nor, in spite of his winning slogan, does it show any genuine sign of “getting Brexit done” any time in the near future.

Bulldozer

Yes, stage one will be done. A great symbolic step which Boris will gloat over. But stage two, which is the main course in negotiations and which could take years, has only just begun.

A Boris Johnson government offers nothing but standstill, or worse. The mean trickles of extra funding for schools, education and all the other parts of the fabric of British society which the Tories have been unpicking for a decade, will not go far enough in rebuilding Britain.

So what went wrong? How was Johnson allowed not just to breach Labour’s “red wall” but to drive a bulldozer through it?

Jeremy loyalists would like us to believe it was all

SPARE a thought for House of Commons staff, called in for a special Sunday opening.

They will be looking after 100 or more rookie MPS elected to Parliament for the first time.

Each will have a volunteer “buddy” to show them

Brexit, the toxically divisive factor that has distorted the political prism to give us a one-off skewed result for an election Labour didn’t want – in spite of demanding one for the best part of two years.

Next time, so long as we stick to the programme, they say, it will be different. That, comrades, is a lesson unlearned.

The tragedy of this shapeshifting, generation-defining election is that it threw away the around the labyrinthine palace.

It never used to be like this. Stories are legend of bushy-tailed newcomers pitching up and wandering around lost before being accosted by security.

Including the newbie who best policies for getting Britain back on to a stable footing with a fairer and more united society. The shutters may have come down the second that exit poll heralded the most disastrous Labour result since 1935, but the warnings had been clear for many months.

Rightly or wrongly, fairly or not, the party leadership had become so obviously it’s own worst enemy.

Dithering on Brexit was the most glaring example but the damage was fundamental. A decisive number of drove from the West Country to knock on the door at three in the morning.

What they won’t get is an office. That is the privilege of the party whips, who still allocate the best spaces to those they consider have been good boys and girls. voters preferred to put into Downing Street a lying, bigoted charlatan than a decent, honest, consistent man who best stood for their own interests.

The message may have appealed but the messenger didn’t. Somehow, Labour’s traditional voters picked up that they had been left behind by the party they used to love.

Not to address where this came from and why would make a mockery of the period of “reflection” Jeremy wants to see as he heads for the door.