Labour Disappeared Its Own Soul
It's lost what gave it the ability to do big, meaningful change
Look at this graphic carefully.
In the last 3 Labour leadership elections there was a genuine left wing candidate. The membership chose the Left candidate, Corbyn in 2015. In 2020 they chose Starmer, who won partly by pretending to be something he wasn’t, left wing.
There is no genuine left wing candidate in the current leadership race. Not one.
Burnham was a right wing candidate in two previous leadership elections. He's now being described as the left wing option. That tells you everything about how far Labour has travelled, and how completely the media has reshuffled the language to hide it.
Starmer has systematically crushed and removed the left from his party. The media finished the job by redefining centre-right as left wing so nobody would notice.
The result? A leadership contest in 2026 where every candidate offers a slightly different version of the same thing. Lukewarm. Cautious. Incapable of the radical change people are screaming for.
This is why the Greens are taking Labour heartlands that were red for decades. Not because of a protest vote. Because Labour can no longer offer what those communities actually need.
Labour removed the radical change politics that birthed their party. A party now closer to the Tories than to what it was for over a century. What's left isn't left wing. It's just management and presentation, no soul.
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