Bad tempered discussion on the Today programme (at one point Jim Naughtie said "shut up both of you") between Sunny Hundal and Jenni Russell discussing the malaise that has come upon the Labour party - becalmed in a sea of bewilderment and fatalism.
The Shadow cabinet is seen as bunkered-up remote from real life, commanding non-existent armies of supporters, and seemingly uncomprehending of the advances of the enemy.
Sunny Hundal told us this morning that all was well, all Labour supporters needed to do was to keep the faith, that the Labour leadership had a whole succession of vengeance weapons that they would let loose right at the last minute ensuring a dramatic and astounding victory.
And all the time the Labour front line is crumbling, support is ebbing away, members of the Labour high command are surreptitiously planning their escape routes (refuge in the House of Lords; a new identity as a director in industry; exile in Europe etc).
The Shadow cabinet is seen as bunkered-up remote from real life, commanding non-existent armies of supporters, and seemingly uncomprehending of the advances of the enemy.
Sunny Hundal told us this morning that all was well, all Labour supporters needed to do was to keep the faith, that the Labour leadership had a whole succession of vengeance weapons that they would let loose right at the last minute ensuring a dramatic and astounding victory.
And all the time the Labour front line is crumbling, support is ebbing away, members of the Labour high command are surreptitiously planning their escape routes (refuge in the House of Lords; a new identity as a director in industry; exile in Europe etc).
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