Oh, please, let it be so. Millicent versus Mildred.
Nothing could better encapsulate the takeover of the Labour Party, well within 20 years, by a subculture defined by its vitriolic hatred of that party, by an almost complete ignorance of it, and by an utter incomprehension of, combined with a pathological distaste for, most of its Fabian and all of its non-Fabian roots: Radical Liberal, Tory populist, trade union, co-operative, Christian Socialist, Social Catholic and Distributist, and so on.
Even if there is only one Miliband on the ballot paper, there will be no one who stands in any of those traditions, never mind anyone who understands them all, values them all, draws on them all, or has even so much as heard of at least some of them. Instead, it will all be about "the progressive Centre Left", which means something else entirely, and which specifically refers to where the wealthy anti-Labour Leftist faction of political apparatchiki and their media retainers has ended up.
Will everyone else finally get the message? It is time to start again.
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Congratulations for using the word "apparatchiki" in a sentence. Truly outstanding!
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