All the names listed fill me with dread. They are all from the same clique who developed New Labour and all of them miss the point on virtually every issue.
In my view the Labour party has to rip itself apart before it can re-group/re-brand/adopt a new philosophy, and it needs a complete clear out at the top, before it has any hope of winning back support.
The Tories need to split into the conservative and libertarian camps. The lib-dems need to split into the liberal and libertarian camps. Labour needs to split into the socialist and liberal camps. Then the libertarians can join forces, the liberals can form a new kind of Democratic (in the USA sense) centre-left party, the socialists can sit and stew in their own bile, and the conservatives can do likewise.
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