Can Labour Climb The Mountain?

Everything is possible. Never has a party and a leadership suffered from such a negative media coverage, for which the New Labour element of the parliamentary Labour party have much to answer for. You cannot rubbish your own leader for months on end, then expect everyone else not to follow suit when an election is called. At least if there is a massacre they will be the first to fall. However it is not over, the mountain is climbable, though to do so would make history on the style of 1945. So go and make history!

There are some pointers. Everywhere Corbyn goes he is greeted by large and enthusiastic crowds. He is clearly enjoying campaigning and is having the time of his life. May relies on rent-a-crowd  supporters, is awkward when questioned and mostly looks haggard and ill at ease, unless mouthing her favourite platitudes. The polls are constantly moving ever so slowly towards Labour, but the gap is still wide. The unknown element, and this is the ground where Labour is strongest, is the fifteen million who have given up voting. A good five million of those would vote Labour and if this ground breaking manifesto, ridiculed by every section of the establishment, from economists, throughout the media, think tanks and of course the Tory electoral machine, catches attention on the doorstep, then all bets are off.

Because whatever the cries of the high and the mighty, the wise and the good, their system is failing the many and if the many vote, Labour can win. So turnout is the key.  Labour must keep calm, work hard, persuade the young to vote, re-energise the Labour supporters Blair lost and June 8 can still be your day. Big Ask but the reward could be the biggest prize in UK electoral history.