Healthy opposition is not a sideshow, without it, democracy is a sham. An unelected but actual opposition, is much better than two ideologically similar parties passing the baton back and forth.I can understand most of that. And traditionally that may well have been the case.
But I am not at all sure that any opposition party has much relevance with the general public nowadays.
We have and will continue to become a very binary society. And the longer that the Labour party is in opposition, the less relevant it will become.
I am not really interested in the Labour Party simply as a sideshow.
We here in Ireland have a two party system where there is no visible ideological difference between the parties and it's been utterly disastrous. We have an actual opposition in the parliament now and it's arguable whether it's having a positive effect (I think it is) but the conversations are at least being had and people are being held to account.