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I like to think there are still some good Labour MPs. They just need to be liberated from the New Labour guys who have been parasitically sustaining themselves on the goodwill people still had towards the old party.
Labour can then go back to protecting people's rights instead of arguing that they have too many, and New Labour can do whatever it is a spineless morally-amorphous knee-jerk-policy-making vote-chasing group of self-important posh-boys want to do, now unshackled from such legacy burdens as principles and ethics.
But, realistically, they won't split. New Labour can only exist because of the masses of people who vote Labour because they've always voted Labour. Lose the name, they lose the votes.
Would be good of them to defect, since new lab is in charge and morally bankrupt