Indeed (although I think it was Denis Healey who said it, wasn't it?). The Gang of Four split away to form the SDP directly because of this lurch to the far-left and took a further 24 Labour MPs with them. That was sod all to do with right-wing papers and more to do with the fact that the likes...
Don't take it personally but I think you need some new ideas:
Why? It clearly wasn't the number one issue last week, it was the economy. Why would that suddenly change?
They're not going away any time soon and if you want to win the next election then you need to understand why people voted...