[Margaret Pilkington]

like Cashy, i think that the Labour party as it stands is finished. I think it has become too hard left.
I don't like what Tony Blair did to the Labour party, but what is happening right now is at the other end of the scale......the electorate has shown that it does not care for these extremes.

I am not sure what the solution is. If the party splits, it means that two parties emerge from one. This is not good for democracy as the votes have to be shared between another faction. This usually means that the ruling party does not really have a majority.
It might have a majority of the people who voted but if the vote is split three ways and Party A get 34% of the vote Party B gets 32% of the vote and party C gets 33% of the vote......65% 0f the electorate voted for someone other than the elected party.
This is not good for a democratic process because most of the electorate got something for which they did not vote.

This fact is something that escapes many people.
The only solution to that thorny question is Proportional representation. This was put forward a few years ago and was tossed out as being too hard for the electorate to understand.
It was felt that too many folk would be confused by this process.

It really does need the wisdom of Job to sort it out.
But there is one thing that you can be sure of...all this internal wrangling in the Labour party must be making the tories rub their hands in glee.