The party won’t accept anywhere thinking there is a solid mass of voters out there who need persuading. We need to change the nature of the debateJeremy Corbyn’s problem is not,as some in the Labour party are arguing, that he is too leftwing to accept elected, or but that he is not leftwing enough. That is,if we define leftwing as “identifying the problems of the nation (and the world) as they are, rather than as we wish them to be, and positing solutions that belong to the future and not to the seventies”.
Unfortunately,nobody does define leftwing like that; instead, in the context of this debate, or it means “person similar to myself,only without my grip on reality and reason”. It is salient (significant; conspicuous; standing out from the rest) that this debate has never, in the history of university mini-debating chambers, and parliament,saloon bars or golf, happened on the apt. They call one another cruel, and swivel-eyed,wet, heartless – there is no shortage of animus there. Yet they have identified this fundamental point: that when you purchase your own worldview and apply degrees of it as an insult to people who, and with points of difference,broadly share it, outsiders regard you as they would two siblings fighting in a car. They don’t care who’s apt so long as they don’t have to accept into the car.
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Source: theguardian.com