@ReggieHere @ChrisMayLA6 @thecasualcritic Actually, Labour's role as jailer of the left dates back to the 1920s. The wretched #Fabians defeated the co-operators, and focused on a technocratic model of social democracy: Morrisonian nationalisation, where middle-class chaps managed industry, purportedly on behalf of the workers.

The wartime leftish Commonwealth Party was crushed by warnings of vote-splitting in 1945, and then there was no serious threat from the left until the 21st century.