It appears that already the Labour Party is once more just talking to itself, indeed arguing with itself, and not listening to what those outside the party are saying and feeling. Outside of the 500,000 ‘members’, including those talking away on social media, the rest of the country really don’t see today as anything but another day, they aren’t engaged in politics and most never will be, not because of the parties themselves but because they are apolitical and just aren’t interested.

Don’t be fooled, this isn’t the dawn of a new era, there might be a lot of people all shouting on Social Media about politics and it seems like the whole country is now very politically engaged, but it is still no more than 5 % of the electorate, to the vast majority, this is just another “boring bit of politics” going on.

Labour members need to realise that only 25% of the working classes have voted labour for decades, the Green, UKIP and SNP voters from the past decade aren’t all queuing to return to Labour and most simply won’t, the way to win an election is to attract people not drive away those already within the party who have differing views on the way forward. The reality is that to win again WILL mean attracting hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people who’ve just voted for the Tories as we have a parliamentary democracy and first past the post system.

The Labour Party has not just won an election, we are still where we were in May 2015, and for the 5 years before that. There’s still a Tory government in the UK who can and will do everything they want, because with a majority, no opposition can stop them. Being in opposition means you can oppose things and protest, but can’t Impose anything, so ultimately achieves nothing. So instead of assuming the voting public actually agree with the 500,000 talk to them and find out how to get their vote, because simply ‘telling them’ to support you doesn’t work.

The candidates who fought and lost to Corbyn learnt the hard way that not listening to those you want to vote for you ends badly and already the Labour Party under its new leadership is making the same mistake with the wider electorate, the ones outside of the party who will really decide its fate.

If the party does not do this and does not adapt and adapt fast there is a very real probability that the party will split.