The point you're missing is that Labour could have realistically won sticking to Labour principles. This pivoting to be Tory-lite is a shit show and it's why so many historical Labour voters, like myself, will look to alternate parties. The Gaza debacle compounds it all.
I said it many months ago, but Keir leading Labour after the incompetence and contempt this set of Tories have shown the rest of us is akin to an open goal. He didn't need to do all this, and the funny thing is there is a small small chance he'll still miss.
All good man, vote where you like. I’m not missing any point. I don’t like lots of the centre right vote chasing, and I think some of the messaging is garbled and wrong headed.
But I still think that all printed goals and supporting documentation is to the left of Blair. There’s always a gap between what is said and what is done.
I truly believe we’re broken by years of Tories saying one thing publicly and doing something worse in Reality.
I also believe that Starmers Labour will have a gap. But I think the words are to the right of what Policy will be. The fella has taken a party that got smashed to pieces 5 years ago and now enjoys a 20-30 point lead.
Happy for the forum and its dog to laugh at me if we get a paper thin Tory-lite manifesto, and no delivery of it. I just can’t see it happening.
This country is utterly fecked. fecked to the extent that the merest suggestion that it’s fecked is something to beat the opposition with. Our national psyche is in the bin. You and I on this message board are not representative of the country. Not by a long shot. I have family members that are paying a fortune in utility bills, have experienced mortgage increases and been turned away from a beach this year because of sewage. Yet they STILL think Labour will make it worse. Because the media. Yeah, I’m from a tiny town of 20,000 people, but you can’t just ignore those people. There are bloody millions of them across the country.
I really think you unite the country by bringing as many people on board as possible and show the doubters a good time. Not just give 30% of votes away to the Tories and Reform. We saw what Brexit did and that was 52-48. A 40-60 split would see just as much division remain. We need to remember that millions of these people voted for Blair, then Cameron and Boris. They may end up voting Labour for a lifetime if we don’t cast them aside now, and actually rebuild this shithole into a functioning country.
Anywho. Massive rant. Apologies. feck the Tories.