Thread by @GeorgeMonbiot

Remember when the Labour Party's travails were all Jeremy Corbyn's fault?

Remember when Labour needed to become "sensible" and "moderate" and to turn to the right to be electable?

Remember when Starmer was the knight in shining armour who would rescue Labour from the terrible error of standing for something?

Yes, Corbyn was very far from being the Messiah. I supported him, but with reservations. But unless Labour stands for something, and ignites and excites people, unless it steps forward in the wake of our great crisis and articultaes a new vision, it will lose and keep losing.

Only in the wake of a great national crisis can systemic change occur. And only an Opposition party that can name this change and inspire us to support it will prosper.
We made this a couple of months ago, but it still stands.

https://twitter.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1390571614627110914

I tried to spell out part of the new vision we need in this book.
monbiot.com/2017/08/01/out…

Some of Corbyn's frontbenchers read it and got in touch. They asked me to expand on part of the vision. I got a brilliant team together, and we published this. Unfortunately it got buried during the internecine war. landforthemany.uk

Fundamentally, Labour's problem is that it is two parties forced together by our First Past the Post voting system. Blair promised to change it, then dropped that promise like a hot brick when he took office.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

That was his fatal mistake (well, one of them), which appears to have doomed Labour to eternal infighting and the rest of us to a corrupt, dysfunctional political system that can be easily captured by charlatans.