Labour needs an authentic and convincing narrative that balances the reality of the Britain it stands to inherit with a much needed and demanded sense of hope - one that can help the party not only win, but govern. The answer is right under its nose, in its name. Labour should stand to Get Britain Working.

News headlines have again been dominated by another young Briton being killed fighting for ISIS in Syria. Yet, the Labour Party has been utterly silent on the challenges our country faces when it comes to terrorism. It's time for Labour to find a voice and lead on the very real challenge of security and radicalisation.

I joined the Labour Party because I believe in the power of progress and the fight for fairness and justice for all. But after nine years, I just can't in all consciousness be part of a party that now walks by on the other side. Labour has lost its way and when it comes down to it I'd rather be a movement of one than in a cult of hate.

No matter who wins the Labour leadership, the party is likely to lose the next election. To start the long journey back to power, New Labour must be left behind - but consigning the party to five years of the far left risks alienating the public for good. People are kidding themselves if they think Jeremy Corbyn is the answer.

It's the 2015 General Election and the parties have parked up their personality focused, divisional and anger-driven wagon right outside your front door. Conservative Cameron lines up against Red Ed - but Labour looks set to come up short. Across the pond there is a model for how to win emerging - but it looks too late here.

Mitt Romney may have lost the last presidential election in the USA, but when politicians and politics across the globe is so far removed from people's everyday lives, don't rule out someone picking up a similar mantle and message in the future. The Governor's life experience is a model to go the whole way.

Britain's leading parties seem keener to blame voters, than look in the mirror as to where our politics is going wrong. Promising ever more easy answers, our current crop of politicians should move aside for a fresher, more optimistic, creative, honest and far more capable generation, before it's too late.

Bashar al-Assad remains in control of Syria three years into an uprising that should have seen the back of this viscous dictator. But the failure of the West has left over 200,000 dead and counting. There are no easy options, but sitting on the sidelines is twisted logic. Britain and the world must lead, or others will for us.

Having watched a speech by Ed Miliband this afternoon, all I can tell you is our politics is completely and utterly broke. Here was a middle-aged, straight, white, Oxford educated, millionaire man telling us how he, 'despite the odds', can be elected Prime Minister. It was as embarrassing as it was insulting.

Nigel Farage is not a solution to the problems Britain faces - he is the symptom. But the total lack of ideas of how to deal with big challenges means his stock is growing - and now, it seems people want to find any excuse to say he didn't win. He did and will again, with the country the casualty of such complacency.