Labour’s leadership race shows the party has truly lost the plot

The Labour party has lost the plot. That is the only explanation for the bizarre, self-destructive antics it has been engaged in since its drubbing in the December election. It has learnt nothing. It is blissfully and stupidly carrying on down the path of Remainerism and/ or Corbynism that lost it the election.

Instead of taking a breather and asking why working-class voters rejected it en masse last month, Labour is doubling down on its unpopular nonsense. Pretty much every door-stepping canvasser and opinion pollster said the same thing about Labour’s historically awful showing in working-class ‘red wall’ constituencies: it was down to the party’s betrayal of Brexit or to its embrace of eccentric Corbynista blather — or both.

And yet now Labour is pursuing both, still, with a vengeance. It plans to carry on betraying Brexit, when even some of the most hardcore Remainers have thrown in the towel. And the leadership is pushing a Corbynista stalwart — Rebecca Long-Bailey — as its favourite leadership candidate.