Of all the books to come out of the Labour years — by David Blunkett, Alastair Campbell, Peter Mandelson, Mo Mowlam, Lance Price and co — not a single one makes a sustained intellectual case for Labour government. (theguardian.com)
I think there is now no credible intellectual case against PR because: (a) PR is obviously better in terms of fairness and (b) we now have evidence that it is also better in terms of consequences / outcomes - at least those which social democrats care most about. (nextleft.org)
But Mr Corbyn's opponents are both so multifarious, and so stunned both by Labour's 2015 defeat and the Party's descent since into full - on existential crisis, that they are struggling to get their intellectual case together. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)