On Thursday's Question Time, one of the panellists said that the Labour Party membership had been polled recently about whom they considered the greatest ever Labour Party leader. Blair, despite delivering three consecutive general election wins, came nowhere; Attlee, despite leading the great reforming administration following WW2 and introducing the welfare state, came nowhere; Ramsay MacDonald, despite being the first Labour prime minister, came nowhere. The out-and-out winner, with more than 70% of the votes, was Corbyn. And that's the problem! They may as well disband, or rename themselves the Communist Party.
As a former party member for most of my adult life, it just breaks my heart to view their spiral into the political abyss. But, it's entirely of their own doing. They have no-one to blame but themselves.
Obviously, the AB membership is predominantly right-wing; that's not a criticism per se, just a statement of fact.
But even the most ardent dyed-in-the-wool Tory must surely accept that a successful country needs a strong government AND a strong opposition, otherwise it's little better than a dictatorship.