So what do you do when all your plans turn to shit? When it all goes ‘tits up’? When the ceiling collapses, your dominoes fall, Armageddon rises, Golgotha falls, the chips are up and the chips are down? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU DO???

In particular and specifically; how does the Labour Party recover from the most almighty thrashing received since Jo Bugner quit boxing? Since Wigan came to Spurs? Since nineteen thirty-something-or-other. A defeat at the polls so humiliating, so humbling, so soul-destroying that it calls to question your credibility, your ideology, your ability to do simple sums and your entire future as any kind of viable political entity.

I don’t know either. But I do know I wouldn’t have Kier Starmer as the new ‘face’ of Newish, revised, slightly modified, hard left but not that left, Labour. I wouldn’t have him as the face of a landfill. But Sir Kier has not yet ‘thrown his hat’ into that particular ring. Only Emily Thornberry has, thus far, but more will follow. Many, many more. Starting with Clive Lewis. Who I quite like because he dresses quite smartly. Other than that he’s an unknown quantity. Though obviously, I won’t get to vote on this particular issue anyway.

What’ll happen is that lots of other players will get involved, like the nightmare that is Rebecca Long Bailey, along with her running mate Angela Rayner. Some moderates like Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips. And then Len McClusky will pick the winner.

What most Labour supporters will hope for is that the horribly neo-Stalinist rise of the bullying brutality and dictatorial methods of Corbynism/Momentum will give way to something a little ‘nicer’. More properly democratic. That the party might move away from the HATE THE RICH!!!! standpoint which typified the Corbyn era. That and HATE THE JEWS!!! and SUPPORT THE IRA!!! Getting rid of any MPs who weren’t ‘on message’, in other words ‘who were quite decent people’. Trashing members of their own party for any words or comments that may be construed as pro-American or pro-capitalism.

They have a long way to go. And so do I. Off to Israel this afternoon. To meet the Canadians (not all of them, just our ones) for their son’s barmitzvah. Very excited. I’ll keep you posted.

Happy Friday

A xxxx