Observer runs special 'vote Labour moderates' edition

There is exclusive news in the Observer -- that an article has been written for the Observer, by new millenial squeeze D Lammy. Lammy gets another spot in a feature on (only nice and only Remainer spokesperson) Labour why-oh-why piece., including Miliband D who gets another go lower down!
 
Lammy is thinking of running for Labour leader, offering:

civic nationalism [that] says that we can be united around shared values and institutions....[EU ones as I recall] ...“To foster this, we need to construct new spaces and places in which the UK’s diverse peoples can engage with each other and belong.”

This is shrewd marketing to appeal to the nationalist white working class, of course, but there may be a problem:.

Lammy, whose support is strong in London

The same article contains another exclusive:

Labour’s former deputy leader Roy Hattersley makes the startling suggestion that if Long Bailey is chosen then moderate Labour MPs should refuse to accept her

D Miliband lends his weight to a Blairite push:

It is not only Corbyn who needs to be replaced, but his politics: the ideology, the worldview, the theory of political change....Of course Brexit was an issue (though smaller than Corbyn and his promises)...I am convinced that Brexit is the biggest foreign policy disaster since appeasement in the 1930s...[Now we need]...a progressive patriotism. 

N Cohen is rapidly morphing into the P Toynbee of the Observer,complete with splenetic rage. His hero is A Turley, former labour MP for Redcar:

[She] tweeted that Len McCluskey was an “arsehole” and recommended joining Unite to vote him out in a forthcoming general secretary election. A passing insult may not seem much to you [although it would normally lead to a twitchhunt for its obvious if only in effect aggression against gays]

She was criticised in turn, for sins including breaking procedure. 'Turley said the article and a press release from Unite painted her as dishonest', and a High Court libel action ensued. Turley was clearly not going to let a passing insult go by even if it would not seem much to us.It sounds very nasty. Turley won.

At a libel trial in the middle of an election campaign, Unite was destroying the good name of a Labour candidate, who did indeed lose her seat.

Overall, this is reasonable.Other bits might be,although they seem a bit one-sided:

All the worst elements of the left’s mindset were on display. Turley was not an honest opponent but wicked, as all critics of Corbyn must be...Then there was the paranoia...Finally, there was the air of embattled virtue.

Turley is doubtless a saint inspired only by the national interest. Cohen sees this wider interest:

the willingness to waste other people’s money, the leftwing sectarian hatred of centrists and the indifference to a woman’s suffering had one benefit: the case of Unite v Turley delineated the modern Labour party to perfection.

But the opening sections are positively Toynbeeish:

the modern left in all its self-defeating ugliness...the former Labour MP for Redcar’s supposedly socialist enemies looked closer to a crime gang than a trade union...Turley was one of the Labour lambs Jeremy Corbyn led to slaughter at last week’s election....

The Observer editorial also focuses strictly on the national interest:

the conclusiveness of the result should not obscure the massive uncertainty that hangs over our future...Leaving the EU on 31 January 2020 under the terms of the withdrawal agreement will not see “Brexit done” in any but the most superficial sense...none of the existential questions facing our country have gone away...What is the UK’s future as a union of four nations? How do we make it a greener and kinder country in which to live, in which older people do not go without basic care and children get an equal chance in life regardless of who their parents are?

But soon plays its old refrains:

Johnson has always prioritised his own political interest over that of the country... the political imperative [is] to tack towards a soft Brexit that minimises its economic impact, protects the union and recognises that over half of voters did not give his version of Brexit their seal of approval last week.

Polling [where?]  suggests that the most important factor in voters deserting the party for the Conservatives was not Brexit, but Corbyn’s leadership

The Observer is still giving us wise advice:

Labour can only win decent majorities by building a coalition of socially liberal and socially conservative voters from every corner of the UK. The decline in working-class support for Labour has been long-term and structural

And it has really been right all along, you know:

Those who have spent the past two years arguing for a referendum – this newspaper included – must take stock and reflect why the case never resonated with enough MPs and voters for it to happen

Not the content just the way it has been presented,as ever.