Listening to Mandelson this morning harp on about how Labour needs to learn the lessons of 97.
That's all they have isn't it? A cult of following a politically strategy which worked 25 years ago, and other than that blind faith they are nothing. They have nothing to offer.
25 years ago - before the Internet, before home computers, before mobile phones really took off. Before tuition fees and before an entire generation was priced out of the housing market and condemned to exploitation by unscrupulous landlords, and when you could quit school at 16 and get a job. Before the eurozone existed. When Yugoslavia still existed. When the British economy was still larger than the Chinese economy.
In other words - a completely fucking different world, but the Labour right refuses to move on and look at how things have changed.