"The former Labour leadership contender Rebecca Long-Bailey has called for Labour to drop its cautious approach to the economy and fight the next election on a radical manifesto including state ownership and a living standards contract between government and public." [source: Guardian]

Well you should see the reaction to this. Dozens of posts below the line in the Guardian, of all places, variously telling her to shut up, that she's handing the next election to the Tories, that she should be a better tactician, that she's handed the scummy tabloids a gift, etc.

Well she's hardly stretched the bounds of acceptable free speech, has she. As I've said so many times, the left in Labour have always been there and will always be there. What happened to the "broad church," fer chrissake!

Labour can't win elections while the right wing of the party will always crawl out of the woodwork with this kind of frightened bollix. Half a million of us joined Labour in those days of hope when a true left-winger and man of principle became our leader. We are still here, by and large. I don't want bloody tactics, I don't want pandering fearfully to the mass media, I don't want "pragmatism," I don't want "power at all costs."   I want a bit of principle, and I have enough faith to believe that an all-embracing Labour Party that welcomes all shades of left opinion would win through. Now that we have Sunak, it's clear to me that the unprincipled and weak Starmer is absolutely not the man. Honestly, I really want to be wrong.