He’s on a hiding to nothing because you’re second point was right.

The labour party should have jacked it in years ago.
It’s core members want it to be very left wing and that’s the way it should be.
The rest really should have made the SDP work but the sheer financial clout of the labour party has kept both wings hanging on.

He should never be pandering to the right, (and I don’t mean the right wing of the labour party)
It’s not working and he’ll end up looking a complete tw@t, which I don’t think he is.

Anyway, the politics of a foreign country like england shouldn’t concern us.

Hartlepool for f’uck sake, I can’t sleep for the excitement of thinking about Hartlepool.