Jeremy Corbyn and his crew don’t want to win elections

When the Labour leadership was in the throes of one of its recent shambolic policy re-alignments – it may have been the volte face on support for the Government’s fiscal charter, or the contradictory announcements on renewing Trident – a colleague of mine said: “Is this too serious to be funny, or is it too funny to be serious?” I think we have the answer to that question now. With the announcement last week of Seumas Milne’s appointment as head of Labour strategy and communications, there can no longer be scope for doubt. This is deadly serious. To appreciate just how dangerous this phenomenon is likely to be, it is important to understand the transmutation hard-Left politics has undergone over the past generation or so. Its concerns are no longer local (or even national). Nor are they much to do with improving the condition of sections of society through normal government mechanisms.

Essential quote:Nor is it troubled by the accusation that it now stands for nothing but a collection of disparate grievances (of which Mr Corbyn reads out a selection each week at Prime Minister’s Questions): grievances are the whole point. If Labour can persuade people that their own lives, or at least the lives of many unfortunate people, are blighted by injustices and deprivations that the elected Government will do nothing to remedy, he is making real progress toward his goal of persuading them that democracy is useless to them.

Obviously the UK's parliamentary system is different in some significant ways but the are commonalities among representative governments in the Anglosphere and, unfortunately, each nation/government is saddled with militant leftists in or very near the seats of power.

As Ms Daley notes, in the UK they are attempting to overwhelm the system with cynicism and obviate the vote.

In the US, leftists are no less determined in their nihilism but they are focused on numbers i.e. the casting of votes, fraudulent or otherwise, along with the counting, fraudulent or otherwise, of those votes.

In both cases the objective is permanence in government by making elections little more than a pro forma exercise.

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