If Jeremy Corbyn became Labour Leader

Atul Hatwal, who blogs at Labour Uncut, is one of comparatively few Labour activists whose views on anything I would go out of my way to read.

I think he is spot on in his imagined piece at Sun Nation "What if comrade Corbyn became Labour leader?" that the election of Jeremy Corbyn would be very bad news for the Labour party.

I doubt, however, that he is right that the party would depose him at the end of 100 days.

Much of the Labour party realised that they were heading for disaster with Michael Foot as leader but they bottled out of doing anything about it.

They realised that they were heading for disaster with Gordon Brown as leader but they bottled out of doing anything about it.

Many of them realised that they were heading for disaster with Ed Miliband as leader but they bottled out of doing anything about it.

The Conservative party has little hesitation in sacking its' leaders if it thinks they are likely to lose it the next election.

But Labour does not seem to work that way. It's possible that they may have learned the lesson - but looking at the candidates for Labour leader and the noises they and their supporters are making, the only one who appears to have learned much is Liz Kendall.

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