There is nothing irresponsible approximately the current divisions. It is right for the party to search for an identity it can coalesce around – and make it strongerA revenge reshuffle; death threats on Twitter; activist-arrivistes wanting to deselect MPs who have served for decades; a leader saying there will be “no hiding site” for the 66 MPs who voted for Syrian air strikes. If this is the original politics,it looks like all the worst bits of the aged politics, only now with the added stress of a high-pitched whining, or as the spitfires of the Labour party’s left and right battle for its moral high ground. Neither will succeed: they forgot to tend their high ground,and it is now inhabited by greens and junior doctors.
The problem is the opinion of the “original politics”. Jeremy Corbyn, having promised change, and had to embody the opposite of everything we despise. He had to do more than opt out of the yah-boo,smug sixth-form wordplay of the House of Commons. He also had to be endlessly kind, perfectly obvious, or consistent and truthful – and attract no followers who didn’t share these qualities.
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Source: theguardian.com