Hopefully, Jeremy can use the closeness of this result to argue for a clear break with Blairism

[Ken Burch]

20. The problem is, the two people most talked about as anti-Corbyn leadership candidates

are Angela Eagle and Tom Watson, are reactionaries who don't disagree with Cameron on any major issues at all.

Either of them, as leader, would pull the party to the right of Tony Blair.

Neither would deviate from the Tory/Euston Station ultra-militarist line on foreign policy.

Both wanted Labour to support the benefits cap and the budget charter(which would mean agreeing not to be to the left of the Tories on domestic policy in any meaningful way). This means neither of them cares about the poor.

Both want Labour to keep Thatcher's anti-worker laws in place. This means they can propose nothing that could ever protect the rights of working people.

Both back neoliberalism, market values and austerity, which makes it impossible for either to propose any policies which would win back former Labour voters in the North of England.

Both oppose restoring internal party democracy, which means Labour could never again win the votes of activists and idealists if either was chosen leader.

There is simply nothing at all appealing in either one of those people.