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The bar raises as you go.

A lot of Labour people are telling me Labour is in poor shape.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.

We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.