My work consigning Labour to electoral oblivion is done

Four years ago, during the Labour leadership contest that followed the party’s electoral defeat in 2015, I urged fellow conservatives to join Labour and vote for Jeremy Corbyn.

I pointed out that you can become a “registered supporter” of the party – a status that entitles you to vote for the next leader – for the princely sum of £3.

I obviously didn’t have Labour’s best interests at heart, but I could see one upside for the party, which is that Corbyn might lay to rest once and for all the crackpot theory that giving the top job to a Marxist is the way to win elections:

With Corbyn at the helm, Labour’s loss will be so catastrophic – so decisively humiliating – that the left of the party might finally be silenced for good. The ‘debate’ they want to keep on having in perpetuity might finally come to a close. We might even see a bit less of Owen Jones on the telly.