Real Momentum

There is much mockery of the trials and tribulations of Momentum's website during its internal elections. But the real problem with Momentum is that it is still trying to influence the Labour Party.

That party has been out of office for many years, it is going to be out of office for many more, and it is what might very politely be described as an uneasy coalition of highly doctrinaire political factions. 

The one that is currently in charge is the one that is almost always in charge, and which defines itself by its absolutely closed approach to anything that the Left might ever have to say on any subject.

I supported Ed Miliband from the day that he declared his candidacy for Leader of the Labour Party, I still think that he would have made a good Prime Minister, and I voted Labour in 2015.

But Miliband appointed a Shadow Chancellor who believed in permanent austerity as a matter of principle. And Keir Starmer has reverted to that type, even in this post-austerity and post-monetarist age.

There is a world elsewhere. And it is a world with plenty going on in it.