It’s Labouring a moot point!

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IT was Brexit. It was the weather. It was the media.

It was even, bafflingly, those who didn’t vote.

The Labour Party remains unaware of and unable to accept the scale of its General Election failure.

I rarely endorse anything former PM Tony Blair has to say, but he got it spot on last week when he savaged his party for an incompetent campaign fought by a leader with a record unpopularity rating.

But Labour just don’t get it. They don’t get that they’ve seen their biggest defeat since 1935. They don’t get that their wildly unpopular leader is viewed as a potentially anti-Semitic terrorist sympathiser.

And they don’t get that Jeremy Corbyn champions spending policies that even primary schoolchildren could see just don’t add up.

If it was not so serious it would be laugh-out-loud funny that the activists who now have Labour in a vice-like death grip moved swiftly to defend a party with a leader and policies that proved as popular as a dose of herpes.

What will it take to make them wake up? Voters who had Labour in their DNA turned against them, and constituencies they have “owned” for half a century chose to turf them out.

The loons currently at the top of the party talk of having a “period of reflection”.

Pardon me? Just what the hell is there to “reflect” on?

You’re out of office, out of touch and will soon be out of time to do anything to fix this.

Even when their most successful leader in memory attempts to offer them a candid character assessment, he ends up being derided.

When Blair warned that Labour was “presently marooned on Fantasy Island” he was attacked rather than being listened to. It beggars belief that the political party some of you have supported for generations can still be proclaiming they “won the argument” with their widely derided manifesto. Or that they had “changed the dialogue about key issues”.

All the Labour Party has been able to change is to take their pitifully low standing even lower. The fact they still believe they were right, and the voters were somehow wrong and let them down, underscores an insulting level of arrogance.

There’s a fight on about who will be the party’s next leader.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the true fight is whether Labour can actually survive.