As the Labour Party begins coming to terms with the scale of the 2019 Election defeat, I felt it was the right time to put some of my thoughts out there as an (they tell us not to call ourselves) ordinary member of the Stockton South Constituency Labour Party. In the time since joining the party I've come to know some amazing people, and seen the selflessness with which some of our activists give all of their time to the unglamorous side of local politics — working with people who simply wouldn't have a voice, if it weren't for the organisational network which the Labour Party provides. This underlying foundation of good people, doing the best they can to shield some of the most vulnerable people in our society from the vicious and calculated Tory attacks upon them and their community, is at once the light at the end of the tunnel, in terms of rebuilding our party for the future to win power again, as it tells the proud history of our movement and its roots in the ind...