A lot of the current crop of new members need to actually learn the history of the Labour Party and why it was formed. Keir Hardie was a Liberal socialist and Scottish Independence Campaigner, who believed that the only way to break the Tory hold on power to gain Independence (which he never achieved) was to unite all parties in the centre and left ground of British Politics. He didn’t form it as a solely left-wing party that you all seem to believe when you talk about the founding principles of the Labour Party. I’m sorry to break it to you, but the Labour Party was formed as a more moderate liberal party than you seem to mistakenly believe.

Moreover the only time that the Labour Party has EVER become a party of power has been when it has had a strong moderate leadership, which has attracted votes from the mass electorate, most of whom sit very much in the centre ground. MacDonald, Attlee, Wilson, Callaghan and dare I say Blair all achieved this, as long ago as Gaistkell in the 1950’s the party worked on abandoning things like Clause IV, that again is nothing new that just that nasty man Blair made up.

So let’s lose this idea that certain people are ‘allowed in the party’ and that ‘Tory-Lites’ or ‘Red-Tories’ are somehow going against the parties founding principles and actually learn that we are all Labour and all have a place in the party, but if we want to be elected then we mustn’t become some extremist party that appeals only to the few millions because that is exactly what we are becoming at the moment, which means just one thing, we are ourselves, actively creating a Tory government.