there is no 'loony left'-just two versions of the right. Nu Labour was a right wing party with right wing policies.
If there was a real 'left' in the USA it wouldn't be in the position it's in. Obama was the candidate financed by Wall Street.
Richard Nixon was the last president who still maintained the policies implemented by FDR that catapulted the USA into being the richest country on earth with a huge middle class.
The genuine 'left' led countries are thriving..China , Russia. All the old USSR countries that fled to market economies are in the doldrums.
you should be praying a real left wing government be elected to return to sanity.