Actually, it's not difficult at all. I'm doing it right now, and I'm not even on drugs.

[kpete]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/world/europe/labour-partys-swerve-left-may-help-tories-in-next-british-elections.html

Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the opposition Labour Party, has stopped wearing T-shirts in public and now favors blue shirts and darker jackets. But even with his more prime ministerial attire, it is difficult to imagine a British electorate that just handed Conservatives a parliamentary majority turning to a party that has lurched so far to the left.

silly NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/world/europe/labour-partys-swerve-left-may-help-tories-in-next-british-elections.html
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2015/09/this-is-excellent-news-for-john-mccain.html

[MisterP]

1. "he won so many votes, he's bound to lose the election"

[n2doc]

2. They are in an absolute panic

Their preferred strategy of offering RW and "RW-lite" as the main choices to voters is ended there (and maybe here in the USA). Maybe just maybe the thought of people having a real choice, including a traditional left choice, is frightening to the NYT?

[Hydra]

3. They're trying to make "Left" anything a bad word

After all, it's easy to choose the bad thing when you don't know you have an alternative.

[mhatrw]

4. The last plaintive cries of the establishment quo!

I didn't realize the Old Grey Lady was Maggie Thatcher.

[DirkGently]

5. England swings like a pendulum do? n/t