I have just realised that my problem is that I am being asked to believe that the Labour party will become *more *positive and progressive once they have won power, when every government in my experience has started with a set of positive ideals and had them ground away by contact with reality.
It's like leaving the starting blocks with 2010 Labour, instead of starting with the idealism and positivity of 1997 Labour.
I don't want Corbinite wishful thinking and economic illiteracy and blaming the centerists, but I do want at least the hope of change and improvement, at least some of which can be effected before they run out of steam.