The 'hard right' of the Labour Party overthrew the normal internal processes and had people like Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott vilified - a favourite tactic of the hard right of any major social organisation - and they took over, intimidating anyone who disagreed Kier Starmer was their boy
I agree with the sentiment of your post, but hard right? Kier Starmer? Really?
Have a look at Morgan McSweeney, the real source of these ills (and an Irishman, alas!)
Yeah but McSweeney gets all of the blame for what is essentially just very poor leadership. Starmer is not hard right, not even close, what he is, is an administrator when we needed a rabble rouser. Comms are important, the cabinet and no 10 staff are important, but leadership is imperative.
The policies come from McSweeny and Blue Labour. Starmer's awful judgement surfaces again in the appointment of former Sun editor David 'the Dinosaur' Dinsmore as chief communications adviser.
The softer side of me has some sympathy for Starmer, he is objectively intelligent, a hard worker and I sincerely believe he is well intentioned, but his stance on Gaza, the fact that he has no political skill whatsoever and the fact that he has pandered to the right on asylum leave me looking left.
My sympathy evaporated not long ago. He even looks like a right wing plant.
Keir, though, please. Though not 'Sir Keir'. Not hard right but surprisingly to the right. Not everything he's done has been bad, but overshadowed by Gaza, protest suppression and general weakness.