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15 Years Hard Labour.....
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Looks like they're waiting for another St Tony!
Looks like they're waiting for another St Tony!
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Labour needs to stop trying to be the party of the “working class”
The Tories have shape-shifted themselves over the years and learned how to adapt. No one ever tells the Tory party to go back to its “core” voters” (at least publicly). And yet a frequent criticism of Labour, often by its opponents, is that it’s “deserted the working class”
It needs to lose that millstone.
Jon Ashworth was right in his comments before the election (you didn’t need to be a genius to see that Corbyn and Brexit were going to do for Labour)
and so he should be listened to now.
On the other hand we should not underestimate the potential for a government to **** it up.
And Labour is supported by younger voters at unprecedented levels.
Which is why Tories hoping the hard left retains control of the party is foolish.
The Tories have shape-shifted themselves over the years and learned how to adapt. No one ever tells the Tory party to go back to its “core” voters” (at least publicly). And yet a frequent criticism of Labour, often by its opponents, is that it’s “deserted the working class”
It needs to lose that millstone.
Jon Ashworth was right in his comments before the election (you didn’t need to be a genius to see that Corbyn and Brexit were going to do for Labour)
and so he should be listened to now.
On the other hand we should not underestimate the potential for a government to **** it up.
And Labour is supported by younger voters at unprecedented levels.
Which is why Tories hoping the hard left retains control of the party is foolish.
Gore Vidal often said the the US has really only one political party.
The Property Party....
...... but that it has two wings ;o)
We have most likely been following suit.
A friend of mine, a lifelong Marxist, regards Tony Blair as being only slightly to the Left of The Daughters Of The Alamo.
As far as young voters are concerned, everyone is a Socialist at eighteen. They vote Left because they have nothing to lose.
Older voters vote Right because they have everything to lose.
The Property Party....
...... but that it has two wings ;o)
We have most likely been following suit.
A friend of mine, a lifelong Marxist, regards Tony Blair as being only slightly to the Left of The Daughters Of The Alamo.
As far as young voters are concerned, everyone is a Socialist at eighteen. They vote Left because they have nothing to lose.
Older voters vote Right because they have everything to lose.
I have said many times that Labour is welded to a Britain of the past which never actually existed in the last century, and absolutely does not exist in this one.
Their idea that the general population is downtrodden cloth-cap wearing industrial slaves who tug their forelock when the 'master' walks past, and depend on the Union to protect them from the workhouse is a pointless myth perpetuated in the febrile imagination of Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn should have spent less time in Islington, and more in the northern constituencies, having found out what the aspirational nation that Blair rode into power on actually thinks, feels, and wants, and it's not to be preached at from the Marist handbook of comrades and brazziers by the factory gates.
Johnson has been gifted this government, and he knows it, and is probably shrewd enough to ensure that he keeps those votes next time, by actually understanding his voters, and working towards bettering their lives.
That's all any PM needs to do, it's not rocket science.
But he or she has to get the post first, and that is something Labour wilfully fail to grasp - you need to get the electorate on your side, and imaginary socialist claptrap is not the way to do it.
Their idea that the general population is downtrodden cloth-cap wearing industrial slaves who tug their forelock when the 'master' walks past, and depend on the Union to protect them from the workhouse is a pointless myth perpetuated in the febrile imagination of Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn should have spent less time in Islington, and more in the northern constituencies, having found out what the aspirational nation that Blair rode into power on actually thinks, feels, and wants, and it's not to be preached at from the Marist handbook of comrades and brazziers by the factory gates.
Johnson has been gifted this government, and he knows it, and is probably shrewd enough to ensure that he keeps those votes next time, by actually understanding his voters, and working towards bettering their lives.
That's all any PM needs to do, it's not rocket science.
But he or she has to get the post first, and that is something Labour wilfully fail to grasp - you need to get the electorate on your side, and imaginary socialist claptrap is not the way to do it.
