Quote Originally Posted by Monty92 View Post
The problem is, now that Labour have been taken over by the hard left, they are much more easily able to distance themselves from the party of yesteryear. So they can claim that all of these terrible decisions were made in the bad old days when the Labour party was infested with red Tories and that *this* Labour party will not allow such gross negligence by local authorities to take place ever again.

And as we have seen, people will swallow it.
I do wonder how much people are actually swallowing, though. I think there are a lot of voters out there who were probably quite scared by how close they came to creating a Corbyn government and will be unlikely to make that mistake again.