The UK Parliament over the past 50 years...

[brooklynite]

1969 – Labour
1970 – CONSERVATIVE
1971 – CONSERVATIVE
1972 – CONSERVATIVE
1973 – CONSERVATIVE
1974 – Labour
1975 – Labour
1976 – Labour
1977 – Labour
1978 – Labour
1979 – CONSERVATIVE
1980 – CONSERVATIVE
1981 – CONSERVATIVE
1982 – CONSERVATIVE
1983 – CONSERVATIVE
1984 – CONSERVATIVE
1985 – CONSERVATIVE
1986 – CONSERVATIVE
1987 – CONSERVATIVE
1988 – CONSERVATIVE
1989 – CONSERVATIVE
1990 – CONSERVATIVE
1991 – CONSERVATIVE
1992 – CONSERVATIVE
1993 – CONSERVATIVE
1994 – CONSERVATIVE
1995 – CONSERVATIVE
1996 – CONSERVATIVE
1997 – Labour (BLAIR)
1998 – Labour (BLAIR)
1999 – Labour (BLAIR)
2000 – Labour (BLAIR)
2001 – Labour (BLAIR)
2002 – Labour (BLAIR)
2003 – Labour (BLAIR)
2004 – Labour (BLAIR)
2005 – Labour (BLAIR)
2006 – Labour (BLAIR)
2007 – Labour
2008 – Labour
2009 – Labour
2010 – CONSERVATIVE
2011 – CONSERVATIVE
2012 – CONSERVATIVE
2013 – CONSERVATIVE
2014 – CONSERVATIVE
2015 – CONSERVATIVE
2016 – CONSERVATIVE
2017 – CONSERVATIVE
2018 – CONSERVATIVE
2019 – CONSERVATIVE

32 years under Conservatives
10 years under "New Labour"

[FBaggins]

1. And now again for (likely) the next five years

If they allow Scotland to leave the UK, it could get worse (from a party control standpoint), since their MPs are predominantly (49-10) left-leaning (53-6 if you count Lib-Dems as left-leaning).

[Otto Lidenbrock]

2. The only Labour leader in 40 years to win an election was "neoliberal" Blair

And he won three on the bounce with big margins. Maybe the party shouldn't have ran away from Blairism.

It's like when people hate on Bill Clinton now. Clinton may not have been ultra progressive by today's demands, but back then he brought the party out of the shadows as Tony Blair did with Labour.