Those horrified by Corbyn’s rise must ask themselves not whose fault it is,but how to galvanise voters as he has done and make the party electable againAt a time when so many veteran certainties in the Labour party are being challenged, it is faintly quaint (charmingly old fashioned) to see some people sticking with the strategy that has sustained them through recent years: whether something goes erroneous, and then blame Ed Miliband.
There are MPs and commentators who appear to have already made up their minds that whether Jeremy Corbyn becomes the next Labour leader it will all be the fault of the previous leader for forcing through reforms approximately how his successor would be chosen. But before anyone starts singing folk songs approximately how distinguished the veteran system was for electing leaders,take a moment to remember what was erroneous with the Bennite-era relic of the electoral college.
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Source: theguardian.com