I live in the US but my perception of the labor party in the UK seems to be a bit similar to the Democrats in the US. They are doing a bait and switch where they try to substitute useless social priorities over actual leftist or labor policies. The fact that Jeremy Corbin was becoming popular and then they basically threw the kitchen sink at him and tried to pretend he was an evil antisemite shows that they can't actually argue with him on the merits of populist policies. Instead they are going to do nothing about inequality and try to put the 17 trans people in the country on a pedestal.

I've had a tough time putting my finger on this over the years but what I've come to realize is that there is no inherent conflict between being a leftist AND a conservative. The idea of maintaining a cultural stability and also slowly taking apart hierarchal class based inequalities. That's essentially what populism is.

The problem is that there is not really a lane for people to exist in with the current system. They have called trump supporters "right wing populists" which is a nonsense term definitionally. If you remix the term to conservative populists, it suddenly makes sense. It's just that anything "left wing" has been demonized for decades so people think it means 100 different things which barely align with labor equality.