Patrick O’Flynn Patrick O’Flynn

Labour must ditch the doom and gloom if it ever wants to win again

Tony Blair’s election anthem “Things Can Only Get Better” was infectious, even for those like me who were not from the same political tribe. It was impossible not to get swept up in New Labour’s era of Cool Britannia. At the 1997 Labour party conference, just a few months after the Labour landslide, I was left wondering: were Labour supporters cheerful because they had won, or did they win because they were cheerful? Whatever the answer, it does not take a genius to discern that the left in general and the Labour party in particular is far away from such a place today.

Gone is the happy optimism. In its place, Labour’s leading lights spew out a seemingly endless stream of doom-laden forecasts and bile about the state of our nation and its people.

David Lammy has defended comparing some Tory Brexiteers to Nazis and continues to insist the ‘delusions of Brexit will soon be exposed’.

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