Journalists live in a strange world where party leaders take all the
decisions. The policy of women-only carriages - adopted on British railways
in the 1950s -is not an invention of Jeremy Corbyn nor would it
necessarily become policy if he were elected. By the same logic the
Daily Mail insisted a Corbyn government would have us all eating cold
baked beans. Probably not!
In other news, Andy Burnham was put on the spot about whether Labour was ready for a female Labour leader. A female socialist would make an excellent leader. A Margaret Thatcher clone probably less so. Liz Kendall was on the BBC rubbishing the trade unions and lauding free schools.
I did not have a vote in this election - being one of the reds under Harriet Harman's bed apparently - but it is a significant development in British politics as Rodney K Kreizman explains here
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