I’m afraid that the internal conflicts between the hard left and the moderates, will keep Labour in a weakened state for a long time! The Marxists Corbynistas of the left don’t care that their policies have been thoroughly rejected by their traditional party supporters, they just see opportunities for a foothold in UK politics, and if they force through the election of Long- Bailey or Clive Lewis ie Corbyn on steroids, they will be out for years to come. Moderates, I fear are just not strong enough to fight them off, so it will take intervention , from some now on the fringes to rescue Labour – if they are concerned enough?
The Labour party membership has such an iron grip on all decision making, that I believe they might as well appoint Rebecca Long-Bailey now, rather than go through the charade of pretending to have an open election process. They will then get exactly what they want …. A young female Corbynista who will continue to propagate an unelectable far left agenda.
Labour had a couple of much needed policies in their recent manifesto which were swamped by unacceptable Marxist rhetoric. It seems to me that the small group of Corbyn’s unelected inner cabinet are more interested in retaining their own power base and dominance of the Labour Party than getting elected to government.
There are a handful of decent intelligent centrists who will once again be frozen out by a bullying party regime.
Once again this is my own personal opinion, which I’m happy for you to disagree with.