Morning all! Thanks for putting the coffee machine on, Megan. Cuppa sorely needed.
I'm wondering if Labour, knowing they can't win, are using this election as an experiment - just how many outlandish policies can they announce before their core voters start to complain?
I read an article by Janet Daley in the Telegraph some time ago that explained how the Jezzas and John McDonnells think, Limer. She's an interesting woman: started off as a committed Marxist and lived in the Independent Marxist Republic of Haringey in the 1970s - the leading light was one Jeremy Corbyn. She was trying to raise a young family at the time and described the various mad schemes inflicted on the area by Jezza and his comrades in the cause of political purity and how it began affecting the community in quite a bad way. Things got to such a pitch that she had to move out but not before facing up to the fact that Marxism always, always ends in Venezuela.
She ended up, five years later, voting for Margaret Thatcher.
The point that Janet Daley makes is that the Jezzas of this world are not interested in gaining power legitimately through the ballot box. No, no, no, the ballot box (symbol of democracy) is far too unreliable. What they want is to make capitalism fail in such a fundamental and irreparable way that we - the great unwashed, the politically blinkered - wake up and achieve political enlightening. So they will do everything they can to push it to its limits, so that the current order breaks down and the new order can rise from the ashes.
Think of John McDonnell whose stated hobby is "fermenting the overthrow of capitalism" and who was sacked by Ken Livingstone for setting and concealing an illegal budget. Sacked by Red Ken for being too extreme 
I think, therefore, that the Labour Party in its current incarnation is utterly serious about nationalising everything that is not nailed down. John McDonnell would have no qualms as Chancellor about bankrupting the country. It's all part of the overall aim.
Brexit has simply thrown everything into sharp relief.
What I can't understand is why Keir Starmer et al are still there. They do not share the faith but they are still there.
That's why honourable men like Ian Austin and Tom Harris should be heeded. Ian Austin was in bits when he said what he did but his conscience would not let him do anything else.