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Embarrassing defeat for UK's Starmer as Greens seize Labour stronghold
(www.reuters.com)
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At some point Labour will realise that the strategy of trying to win over right wing voters and hoping the left will stick with you regardless no longer works in the UK. I just hope they realise this before the next elections.
Pretty sure they arent trying to win over right wing voters, they are just right wing now.
They're using the Morgan McSweeney playbook of modelling yourself on your opponent and then just differentiating by one or two "easy win" points. It makes you paletable to your opponents voters.
You can only do this against one opponent though. If the greens are in play, they are an existential problem to a labour party employing this strategy against reform. You can't mirror two paries that are diametrically opposed to each other.
Yeah, they must've raised taxes on the rich and redistributed it to the poor by accident.
They've economically tiptoed towards the left, and have actually been doing some pretty good things (as you rightly point out) - but it's their social policies which have shifted so far to the right - and generally that seems to be what we colloquially judge our left and right on.
Agreed, the social policies could be a lot better.
Say it loud!
Yeah they "shook off the fleas" (I.e. leftists) ahead of the election as I recall.
It won't happen under the current "leadership".