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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
By 2024 Labour will have ditched Corbyn, the mad socialist Marxism and made themselves electable?
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After Callaghan’s defeat in 1979 Labour lurched hard to the Left and installed Michael Foot, whose defeat led to Neil Kinnock, who then began the process of eliminating the red weed from the party. He hadn’t changed things enough for the electorate’s liking by 1992 (also the Tories had salvaged their chances by defenestrating Thatcher) so John Smith got the gig. Had he not died in post he might have won in 1997, but I’d say that’s not a given, and it’s by no means certain he’d have achieved the landslide Blair did by making himself look like the heir to Thatcher.
If Labour lose tomorrow night (and I think they will), Corbyn will go but he will only be replaced by someone Momentum thinks it can trust ... that could be a closet reformer ... a Kinnock figure, if you like ... but then it will take whoever that is a long time to deradicalise the party again. On the other hand John McDonnell might get the job, and Labour will remain on the hard left for another decade.