Does Labour Stand For Any Of Its Traditional Values?

Labour is one mess of a party at the moment.

The Labour members, and union leaders who support Labour, want the party to go back to it's old hunting ground in true left wing territory.

The leadership candidates are all trying to pull the party back to New Labour's hunting ground of the centre.

Both sides agree that Ed Miliband's strategy of straddling the ground inbetween the left and the centre was unsuccessful.

Ed Miliband was made to look weak, from people wanting to pull him left, and others trying to pull him right.

So what does Labour stand for now? With it's politicians going one way, and it's supporters going the other, is it any wonder that Labour did so badly?

It's politicians seem to have forgotten Labour's original values, which is meant to be to give those who are at the bottom of society a voice, yet all it's party members and voters can see is Labour trying to win back the trust of businesses again.

During the election campaign the then Shadow Chancellor (and MP) Ed Balls couldn't name a single business leader who supported then, instead her came up with "Bill Somebody".

Has Labour learnt it's lesson from New Labour and Ed?

Apparently not, still not willing to accept the fact that because of their spending spree during 1997 and 2010, the recession of 2008 hit us harder than what it should have.

Labour bailed out the banks, the banks that Labour failed to regulate.

Now we have Andy Burnham (apparently their most "left wing" candidate), Yvette Cooper, Mary Creagh, and Liz Kendall.

The unions are quite obviously backing Burnham (so we can safely assume he's already won), but why?

Recently Andy Burnham has hinted that he might back the Tories benefits cap of £23,000, he doesn't want to give us, the public, the impression that Labour are the party for an "easy ride" for people who simply don't want to work.

Does Burnham truly believe this? I'm not so sure, it feels to me, that he's purely trying to bring back lost voters, so they're still treating us like sheep, we'll follow anyone who "says the right thing", not a politician who's full of conviction.

Can you imagine the likes of the late Tony Benn, or even Harold Wilson being so.... right wing?

It's making politics boring, and making the Labour Party obsolete, what's the point of an opposition if it doesn't oppose any of the governments policies?