zouzounaki
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What they've been trying to do is appear electable and unless you want another 10 years of our current government, then I would be tempted to roll with it for now.
I've never been more sure I will vote labour and it can't come soon enough. Completely sick of this lot.
i don’t think it’s some kind of master plan to fool the electorate. i think it’s genuinely blairites taking over. the talk of the previous labour being unelectable is bullshit imo. their share of the vote in 2017 was higher than blair’s last GE if i recall correctly and in 2019 they were sabotaged by their own MPs and had brexit fever and starmer’s shenanigans to contend with. while losing a load of seats, the actual share of the vote wasn’t as poor as you think, with higher turnout for tories also resulting from brexit/BJ fever.
i think starmer risks alienating at least as many left labour voters than he will appear to the more reactionary ones. the polls aren’t as they are because starmer impresses everyone, it’s because the tories have imploded. as time passes, starmer reneges promises, contradicts himself and further torifies his position on stuff, and alienates more people. he’s pretty useless and not a very impressive, coherent or convincing communicator. i don’t think the GE is in the bag for labour at all at this point.