Anatole Kaletsky is a socialist:
Instead of presenting themselves as more competent and sensitive managers of a market economy than the Tories, Labour leaders have reverted to their old dreams of building a new kind of society that is fairer than any that capitalism could ever produce. This is in many ways an exciting project. And one day it could inspire millions of supporters with far greater enthusiasm than Mr Blair's timid and consensual “project” ever did. But this new, ideologically divisive, Labour Party is unlikely to attract enough support ever to win a general election.
They tried that once, Anatole. It ended in bones.
Suicidal economic systems just seem to enter their marrow as a Human Ideal Virus, weakening the immunity of liberal democracies until the Nazi warning signs appear. Let us hope Labour is dead.