Ed, Refounding Labour: it’s been done before. Tony did it. New Labour. Scrapped clause 4, which formerly committed the party to, er, socialism, thus making Labour a Conservative wannabe. Where were you? You didn’t notice? Refounding Labour didn’t help then. You’re sounding as clued-in as David Cameron. Are you going to reinstate clause 4?
And for re-founding things in general, that’s a very tired idea altogether. See below.
We trained hard … but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
— Charlton Ogburn (not Petronius, as it turns out, but may as well be.)
