i just bumped into our mp in town - she's very down about the way things are going in westminster. i suspect she is upset by a different lot of labour members than i am but i like her and respect the job she is doing and we are both too diplomatic to fall out about it. if we can agree about the need to support the leader (and the party) despite being from different wings of the party it seems to me that we all should manage it. all labour mps were elected with corbyn as leader and with a good manifesto. i wouldn't be too upset if a few mps left the party ('bye frank!) and went the same way as the tory liberals but really support for the public services, some renationalisation and an ethical foreign is really a very modest starting point for a more decent society.

(by the way what happened to the new thread with the odd name - and what was that morrison's wine you were recommending there steve?)