Morals aside, it plainly does not work! A decade of pandering to reactionaries has not only made the country noticeably worse, the people it's supposed to appeal to are still miserable and not even slightly grateful for all the pandering they've gotten

We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?

This is not normal discourse. It is not just a bit of fun for a Sunday paper interview. It is beyond the realms of the concept of decency shared across the political spectrum until last year.

One thing I think (many) Dems and the current iteration of labour have in common is that they seem to think that getting elected/governing is an end in and of itself, rather than getting elected is a way to advance policy goals to which they are deeply and consistently committed.