What Labour members really care about in this leadership race is ideas | Zoe Williams

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The big distortion of this election is that it’s dominated by bitter infighting. Yet it’s really a debate over differing visions of the future, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Another lost election, another Labour leadership contest. And thanks to Ed Miliband’s contentious one-person-one-vote reforms, that inevitably puts the focus back on the party’s members. The most honest objection to the rules introduced under the reforms is that the right to choose the leader should never have been bestowed on the members.

 

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I wish

It’s just me but I’d care about winning...

The idea I care about is the idea of getting the Tories out of office so they can’t do any more damage! Ideology is all well and good, but you need to be in office to enact change! And the poorest in this country need Labour to step up and become electable!

As the last two election has provided Labour is very good at coming up with ideas.

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