re: #190 HappyWarrior

Correct. I’m definitely interested in seeing where Labour goes from here. Corbyn’s problem is exactly what you say. He is a living anachronism. And I think that Bernie over here has a similar problem.

Corbyn says that he won’t stand for another election, but hasn’t said when he’s stepping down (if you actually trust him to do that). The reason you’d do that is to groom a successor, and any successor he’d choose would be somebody like him, so the knives are out and the Parliamentary Party (i.e. the elected MPs) may decide to find a successor they like and force Corbyn out.

It’s not going to matter much for a long time, since Labour will be irrelevant at the national level for years except for some byelections. There’s not much doubt that BoJo will push through the withdrawal agreement and leave the EU in January, but the agreement essentially turns UK into Norway until, practically speaking, a trade agreement is signed, which is going to be years not months. The EU citizens who take the old racist voters’ blood pressure and wipe their asses will continue to leave with no replacements, businesses will pack up and go, and all the Remainers will have Told Ya So.

Any national politics for the next few years will be more Tory internal infighting. Boris is another malignant narcissist who has no particular policies and is an enormous fucking liar and cheat, but it’s unclear to me whether the rest of the Tories think that this win is tied to BoJo or whether he’s a noisy liability and needs to be neutralized at some point.