Rule 2: Act ruthlessly

Do not be sentimental. This is the time to purge
the party machine and put your own people in
charge. Sack the general secretary and all the
place people immediately. Don’t believe them if
they pledge allegiance — either they are being
duplicitous or, worse, they mean it: if they rat
now, won’t they re-rat in the future? As we said
when we expelled Militant, there’s no problem
with a witchhunt when there really are witches
to hunt.

Rule 3: Punish the losers

There’s an old saying in the Australian Labor
Party: “magnanimity in defeat, vengeance in
victory.” Make it your motto. Continuity
Corbynistas like Rebecca Long Bailey and
Richard Burgon must be exiled to the back
benches for the rest of their parliamentary
careers, which should be as brief as possible.
Victory has to be absolute. It is crucial to show
you understand just how toxic Corbyn’s tax and
spend manifesto, default dislike of business and
deep lack of patriotism really were.