Here is today’s latest Labour collapse news
My friend Fiona Laird suggests that people arguing about the future of the Labour party need their own alternative to Twitter, to leave the social media platform free for everyone else who wants to talk about other things. I know what she is getting at. There is something rather wearying – as well as sad – about the unrelenting nastiness of the Labour meltdown, to say nothing of the national tragedy involved in the UK being left without an opposition party as Labour is wrecked by the far left.
Corbyn is clearly loving it, of course. The bloke gets all puffed up when he does one of his little pieces to camera or makes one of his mind-bogglingly dim speeches. After a lifetime of being ignored he is now the man in the media spotlight.
With all of that in mind, here is a bulletin of all today’s Labour catastrophe news that you need, all in one place so you can avoid it if you wish.
1) Here is the news. Andy Burnham is going to be the Labour candidate for Mayor of Manchester, or is it Liverpool? (Cue footage of Burnham looking at his Stone Roses and Happy Mondays records.) After devoting his entire career to climbing the ladder at Westminster, he has now decided that Westminster is terrible. Bye bye Andy Burnham.
2) Burnham – who got the backing of the Corbynites for his move – is staying neutral in the leadership fight and the battle to save the party from far left destruction. As Labour MP Michael Dugher put it on Twitter: Daddy, what did you do in the war? I stayed neutral, son.
3) The Corbynites wiped out the non-Corbynites in the party’s NEC elections on Monday, strengthening Corbyn’s grip.
4) There has been a court judgment about the right of new members to vote, or something. The outcome is extremely boring and too complicated to understand.
5) And finally. Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson has moved out of his room in a shared Unite flat, reports Guido Fawkes, giving the collapse of Labour a dismal Rising Damp feel.
That is the Labour collapse news, for today.