Labour may have finally run out of chances to reform.

It seems bizarre to say that Labour have suffered another crushing electoral defeat when their campaign was basically led by David Cameron.

But since Labour MPs are so keen to blame themselves, and their leader, for the loss of the EU referendum then that is the line I’ll take during this article.

Another humiliation at the ballot box has been met with the same old out of touch response from senior figures within the party.

“Bla bla bla people are hurting.”

“Bla bla bla austerity.”

“Bla bla bla we need to start listening.”

But they never do.

More than ever, Labour MPs are seen by the public as the kind of people who go off on their gap years to volunteer in places like Bosnia or Burma. Then they come back and think all the problems of a man in Sunderland can be summed up using the same narrative as for a child refugee in these countries.

They are the party of the victim and that is why they are so popular among social liberals and ethnic minorities in London.

But the one thing everyone outside the Islington dinner party that is Labour can agree on is we are not victims. We are British and we are privileged to be born in one of the greatest countries in the world. And whatever problems deprived, working class communities have won’t be solved with outright pity.

Jeremy Corbyn is clearly not the solution to the predicament Labour finds itself in, but Labour MPs should acknowledge he isn’t the problem either.

In the EU referendum campaign he was being stitched up from day one. Had Remain won and David Cameron increased his lead over Labour in the polls, Corbyn would have faced a similar challenge from Labour MPs to the one he is facing now.

The only thing he could have done to prevent this would have been to go out on a limb and back the Leave campaign. If he had done this, and the same result had been produced, he would have come out with his position enhanced and earned the sole right to lead the opposition during Brexit negotiations.

But hindsight is a wonderful thing and it would have been an unbelievable risk given that if the country had voted Remain his career would have been over.

The rebel majority of Labour MPs are right to say that Corbyn is now unelectable, but they’ve played no small part in that with the bad faith in which they have served under him for the past year.

On the subject of electability, the fact that Angela Eagle can seriously be proposed by anyone as a replacement for Corbyn shows the degree to which Labour have lost touch. To select the Shadow First Secretary of State really would be out of the frying pan and into the fire.

This masculine woman did more than Corbyn ever could have to lose the EU referendum, when she put in a shocking debate performance that basically involved two hours of non-stop shouting at Boris Johnson.

(‘Masculine woman’ is a comment about how Angela Eagle comes across and definitely not about her sexuality. The fact that I even feel I need to clarify this is a damning indictment of the politically correct Britain that Labour created and another reason why so few people outside of London vote for them.)

Maybe a few months ago, a unity candidate like Andy Burnham could have restored the Labour party to temporary electoral respectability but now it is looking too late even for that.

With the amount of infighting in the party, Labour MPs would do the country a massive favour by cutting their losses and splitting up into factions based on their actual beliefs rather than hiding behind a brand just to get elected.

Jeremy Corbyn could lead a rump Labour with around 40 MPs while the rebel majority form a new party with fanatically pro-EU Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. That way they might even be able to find a competent leader.

More likely though, the party that was so inspiring to our grandparents’ generation, that brought us the NHS and the welfare state, will wait until 2020 to finally be put out of its misery.

When that happens, it should be considered not as a massacre, but an act of mercy from an electorate which didn’t want the poor old dog to suffer any longer.