"Jeremy Corbyn has given hope to my generation. Please don’t let the cynics take it away"

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. No, absolutely not.

Unfortunately, Corbyn's victory means that once he is gone the party is going to have to move further towards the centre in order to detoxify itself from his legacy than it would otherwise have done.

The Kinnock/"Blairite/Progress" way of doing things won Labour three elections in a row and, for all Blair's faults (which I acknowledge are significant), did more good for the country than any prime minister since Atlee, despite Corbyn and his Bennite friends' desperate attempts to keep the Tories in power. The Labour party needs to learn from experience what works (centre-left policies) and what doesn't (hard-left policies), and to stop shitting on its own achievements.