But, In That Case...

The Tories cannot win, because elections are now, to call a spade a spade, rigged against them. Not necessarily against any conservative party. Not necessarily against any "free" market "libertarian" party (which would just lose, fair and square). But against the Tories. I do not, of course, write this as any fan of the Tories. It is just the fact of the matter.

But the Tory bogeyman is the only thing keeping the Labour Party in existence. If such members as there still are (mostly retired, almost all over 50, in safe seats normally in receipt of councillors' allowances or married to people who are, practically unheard of anywhere else) ever cottoned on that no such bogeyman existed anymore, then that would be the end of the Labour Party. It has never had any concept of itself apart from as a weapon against the Tories. But no such weapon is now necessary.

And they will cotton on, sooner rather than later. Labour is as doomed as the Tories, precisely because, without the Tories, there can be a social democratic party, or a left-wing party, or a trade union-based party, or whatever, but there cannot, and there very soon will not, be the Labour Party.