Lack of Self-Awareness

Labour is to commission the mini millipede to hold an inquiry into why Labour lost the election. Which is funny really. I mean, everyone else knows exactly why they lost the election. In a recent conversation with one of their number, I was treated to ad hominem attacks for merely pointing out the obvious. They have their fingers in their ears, still believing, despite the evidence to the contrary that they won the argument, that Boris Johnson is an ignorant buffoon and that their economic polices weren’t a pile of shite.

Yet everyone outside their bubble could see that red wall about to collapse. Everyone outside their bubble could see a Johnson victory and no one outside their bubble is remotely surprised either by the victory or the behaviour of the losers.

Still, I’m sure that the millipede minor will come to a conclusion. Maybe they should arrange for a new electorate.

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    • More importantly Ed is supported by UNITE and Len McClusky. You can probably write the report’s conclusions yourself knowing that fact

  1. In Hull we have pig in red rosette syndrome, yet most of the Hull MPs won with vastly reduced majorities, some came close to losing their seats. If the Tories had been a bit less rubbish the wipeout could have been even more devastating.

    • The only downside for me on election night was that Yvette Cooper managed to scrape a win, albeit with a reduced majority. If the BRExit party had been a bit more self-aware they could have nudged that traitorous bitch out of the Commons so she can spend more time with Ed Balls…I mean “…her family”.

  2. Like the fall of Communism in the Eastern Europe the crumbling edifice that is the Labour movement has still got a ways to go before it collapses entirely. I mean 202 MP’s still isn’t a bad number, even for a party in decline.

    Instead of some earth shattering collapse, I suspect it will be more like what has happened to the Liberal party over the last century, a long slow dwindling away into political irrelevance with occasional spluttering like a dying fire.

    Sure, I would love to see it suddenly extinguished, but that’s not how long standing political parties die.

  3. From the Grauniad piece “They will be taking soundings from the leftwing campaign group Momentum and the centre-left group Progress.” That’s fine then, I’m sure Lansman will put them back on the straight and narrow.

    Why is the Milibanned doing it anyway? Baroness Chuckyerbutty always gives them the result they want.

  4. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Let them get on with it. It’s hilarious to watch.

  5. “Maybe they should arrange for a new electorate.” I thought they’d tried that with their horde of fresh imports a few years ago . . .

    • Yes, they’ve been relying on their imports (& postal voting “arrangements”) – what a shame these underhand methods haven’t worked!
      Wallace Junior could suggest a rebranding from Labour to The Islam Party – that at least would be honest.

  6. New voting members were allowed to join the party for £3 (IIRC) – and many of them mischievously voted for Corbyn. Ed Milliband’s first job should be to find out what sort of useless, incompetent tosser thought that was a good idea.

    Oh wait…….

  7. I was way ahead of you on this one LR. As soon as some in Labour circles started seriously touting big Emily and that Nandy woman as serious contenders for the leadership, I realised that Labour actually wants to fook itself for at least another 8-10 years.

  8. You’d think they’d ask some of their members who had actually won an election.

    But they can’t be having with the only person they have who actually knows how to do that! Literally the only person who has done it, will not be listened to.

  9. It’s perfect. Labour get a headline involving someone that the masses may vaguely remember to produce a report that almost nobody is going to read, even fewer will be bothered about, and even fewer will take seriously.

    Box ticked, Labour is not interested in what they did wrong. Everyone move along. Nothing to see…

  10. This post has been used as quote of the day over at Samizdata and I left this comment.
    “I’ve just finished reading “Socialism, the failed idea that never dies” by Kristian Niemietz. The book seems to be a little repetitive because it covers all of the most prominent socialist experiments and the story tends to be roughly the same one every single time. He extensively quotes left wing apologists for each socialist utopia and these also tend to be similar in each case. It was the aforementioned apologists that made the biggest impression on me, people so convinced that they are right even when the evidence that they are completely and utterly wrong is irrefutable and right in front of their noses. I’m still finding it hard to believe that there are people who have their heads so completely up their own arses.”
    Having encountered this, Labour’s problem in admitting that they were wrong comes as no surprise really. Long may they continue to delude themselves.

  11. It’s interesting. I’m now in the US, and the Dems are setting up to do exactly the same thing here. Once you allow for the fact that the original dems (say 5 years ago) line up with the std conservative position at home (and the US right is further right), what’s being pushed here by the dems is the (US version of the) same sort of hard left rubbish that we were hearing from the Corbynated chicken prior to the election.

    They’re, likewise, going to lose badly and not understand why. The screams of racist/redneck/deplorable will hit the rafters again.

    I think the mistake being made on both sides of the pond is the same. They’re listening to social media because they think it represents the electorate. I dont know the numbers for Britain, but only 7% of Yanks are on twitter. Add to that that 85% of political tweets are generated by just 5% of people who tweet politically.

    You’re down to 0.35% of the population generating most of twitter on the subject of politics. The dems are assuming that twitter is representative of the electorate. In fact 95% of what they’re basing their actions on is the rantings of their own activists.

    Of course in the UK, you can add the bias of pretty much all the media (it’s bad here but it’s worse at home because there are NO dissenting voices, however crazed), civil servants, majority of think tanks, quangos, z-list celebrities (yes, I’m looking at you Hughie) etc.

    Long may it continue. Now if we could just have a Scottish referendum where the vote was given to the English, rather than the Scots…

    J.

  12. The polls were still giving Labour a good chance of being able to govern in a coalition with the SNP. That was why the result – and 80-seat majority – came as a shock. The voters had obviously made up their minds long ago as to which way they were going to vote, so the polling is highly suspect, just as it was in the run up to the 2016 US presidential election, which gave Hillary Clinton an 85% chance of victory.

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