A piece from Labour Uncut got me pondering. As did this piece.
Essentially Labour espouses an -ism. In this case Socialism. Might the 'meltdown' in Labour reflect a meltdown in the support for Socialism? Globally? You might argue that Blair did for socialism in the Labour Party by reforming Cl4.4. (language-wise for the worse. The old Cl4.4 was expressed in wonderful Edwardian English, whereas the replacement text is IMHO just more management-speak.). And you could argue that Thatcher created Blair, who could only achieve power, if we are honest about it, by deceit.
In turn Blairism spawned the Cameroons. And they too, have just been heartily rejected.
In any event pretty well everywhere you look the outcome for socialism has been dire.
It might be that English Socialism (God forbid 'Ingsoc') was really a protest movement against Tory-ism (not 'capitalism' per se) - aka landlordism. The party of the Toffs.
If Iain Martin is right, and I suspect he is, then we have now moved into a post left / right world.
Our democracy has now a new binary choice. Big Government v Small Government. How long will it take for those groupings to coalesce?