Finally, anti-austerity. The vast majority of Labour members and MPs oppose cutting support for the poorest in our society. Even Liz Kendall, hated by the bonko-left, has “almost always voted against a reduction in spending on welfare benefits”. Allowing everyone who opposes Jeremy Corbyn to be branded as in favour of hurting the poor is grossly unfair; apart from anything else, it overlooks genuine achievements, such as the million children lifted out of poverty by New Labour up to 2010. Those dratted Blairites.

Most MPs understand that we lost in 2015 in part because we were seen as too anti-austerity. Voters did not see us as fiscally credible and did not trust us with the nation’s finances. The Welfare Bill was a massive miscalculation aimed at showing the electorate we understood why they rejected us, an attempt to square a circle. It was not a sign that Labour MPs love austerity; many worked very hard behind the scenes to amend the bill, only to find themselves getting abused by supporters of a man who did nothing.

Labour under Corbyn has fallen between two stools economically. Either it has promised things which almost the entire party could support (McDonnell’s fiscal credibility rule, which sounds a lot like Brown and Balls’s attempts; increased workers’ rights), or it has pledged things which MPs know will play into the “overspending Labour” narrative and sink us (John McDonnell again, this time pledging to spend £500bn).

However, the mood music from the top is vague platitudes about a fairer world and the evils of austerity; “slogans, not solutions”, perfectly demonstrated in Corbyn’s risible pledge card:

Almost anyone could sign up to these. Meaningless. Bring back free owls.

Convincing the public that we can be trusted with the economy is going to be a long and arduous task. Corbyn doesn’t seem interested in anything other than watery statements about austerity being bad, and until we grip this, no amount of PR will help. We need to win the public’s trust before we can get a hearing. The message is wrong.