Re: swing voters
"Labour, if it is to ever win power again, must elect a leader who appeals to people like me (Floating voters who have previously ticked red boxes and now tick blue). "
Swing voters like yourself are now vastly outnumbered by people who have either never voted, or who have recently stopped voting, in either case "because there's no one worthing voting for because they're all the same".
Corbyn, whatever else you think about him, is not "all the same".
The Tories get their money directly and indirectly from the finance sector, as everybody knows and as the Electoral Commission website will confirm.
The party-within-a-party, Progress Ltd, (Blair, Mandelson, Burnham, etc) get their hundreds of thousands a year from Lord Sainsbury and a bit more from Lord Mandelson and from fine organisations like the British Venture Capital Association (again, Electoral Commission).
Corbyn's leadership campaign has raised £130K in the last few weeks in small donations from large numbers of increasingly motivated members of The Great British Public. When did something like that last happen? Apparently this frightens Labour Party HQ. I can see why that would be. Democracy is potentially frightening to the establishment if people actually want it done right.
Fwiw the Conservative Party membership in the UK is now at its lowest level for decades. The *increase* in Labour membership since the election is bigger than the total Tory membership.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
