Paul Mason says, probably correctly, that the "vast majority of Labour MPs" mainly just want to "be armed with policies they can sell on the doorstep" (Another voice, 24th August, 2018). This begs a question relating to the actual policies "Corbyn`s most trenchant critics" would be advocating when promoting their new centrist party (Leaving Labour, 24th August, 2018). Presumably they would have rejected Corbyn`s plans to nationalise railways and energy, increase taxes for the rich, and to end austerity, ideas which have proved to be popular, and revert to the Tory-lite promises which cost Labour so dearly in the elections of 2010 and 2015?
Whatever their choice, the "Fair Oak Farm participants" will only succeed in putting a smile on Tory faces. What would be written on the side of Umunna`s electoral bus? "Vote for me, and guarantee another ten years of Tory rule"?
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