I repeat, and will continue repeating until people here get it -

1) If you don’t get a majority of candidates elected at a GE, your policies aren’t worth shit. Absolute, incontestable FACT.

2) The UK electoral system has become a ‘pseudo-presidential’system - a large number of voters don’t vote for their constituency MP any longer, or even for the party they support. They don’t vote for policies, they vote for the party leader whose ‘personality’ they find, for whatever reason, the most appealing. The recent GE is proof absolute of this FACT.

3) Unless the LP come up with a leader who is capable of uniting the party, dealing with the back-stabbers, handling the majority Tory-supporting media, demonstrating that the accusations of Labour anti-semitism have been dealt with, and being popular with voters, they will remain in opposition for a very long time to come.

I don’t see any of the candidates (four of them now Jess Phillips has thrown the towel in) being capable of pulling the above off, nor having the personality to attract voters back to the party.

Sorry, but that’s my view.