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Originally Posted by James

I think the problem Labour have got, and this leadership challenge has shown, is that there are people in the party that have completely different politics to each other - they shouldn't really be in the same party.

David Milliband etc. and most of the MPs -especially the ones that were elected during the Blair era - are Social Democrats, whereas Corbyn and his allies are actual Socialists.

I think you are right but hasn't labour always been a bit of a social Democrat and socialist left mix? I think from an electoral point of view the problem is that that they are veering too far to the left for many voters.