Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.
We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.
Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.
It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.
So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.
We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.
Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.