As a party member I'm so confused about the future of the party, can't get my head round it.

Half the time I'm thinking yes this is good news for labour, I'm looking at the next PM and that Ed distinguishes us from the other parties as he is the furthest left we could go in terms of viable candidates and that the people of Britain will see that all the parties aren't "just the same policies spun differently".

The other half of me thinks that Labour has basically formed a gang of left-wingers that has no appeal to people who are more central, swing between parties and that he's just going to be a sort of Michael Howard transitional leader and that there is more doom coming in 2015 before things get better.

Plz nurture my currently drunken confused brain. DiScuss