Thread by @SteveNickSmith

That’s the plan though, to lose elections. Those in charge of the Labour Party want to burn it down and start again, they accept this will mean election losses but they do have this sincere belief a centrist party will rise again at some point in the future. This is all priced in

https://twitter.com/david__osland/status/1416754336646971393

On current stats, 100,000 members have quit Labour but that probably still leaves a majority behind that believes in the ideas of the 2017/19 manifestos. This is anathema to the current leadership and its advisers. It will be a 5-10 year project to jettision these members

Meantime, the party will look like a divided basketcase, constantly losing elections as it prioritises a civil war against itself. But it will be justified by the Great Churn, socialists out, ideology-light Kim Leadbeater-type community campaigners in. That's the 10-year plan

Does the leadership & its advisers care this hands the country to the Tories for the next 10 years? Not really. It expects election defeats to strengthen its party management hand. All losses will be blamed on the Left resisting its extirpation. It can rely on media echoing this

Important to remember the current leadership cadre believe in the traditional psephological models that state Opposition parties need to be 5-10 points ahead by Mid-Cycle. They are 10 behind. They know game is up and are already focusing on late-2020s for some kind of comeback

Obviously the below will strike most observers as deeply incompetent but once you figure out that the Labour leadership is focused on a long-term internal restructuring of its membership above all else, none of this retail politics positioning matters to them in the short-term

https://twitter.com/hulllecturer/status/1417035811841773568