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Originally Posted by jfman
Yet going further to the left appears more popular than wallowing in the centre. However rather than stay in and water it down Blairite after Blairite undermined the message and week after week the Observer got someone to write about anti-Semitism.
Biden won because he managed to hold together the left and the centre. And wasn't Trump. Labour have made no effort to coalesce around some point left of centre and further left than a Blairite position.
You are right though in that they don't have a message for their former voters. We are only seeing now in England what has happened in Glasgow and Central Scotland over the past ten years.
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Sir Keir's policy was to have few policies and to focus on the government's handling of the pandemic. Unfortunately for him, after a poor start, the government delivered on solving the pandemic crisis and he didn't have much of a leg to stand on.
His only consolation must be that incumbent parties in the three British nations have performed well, perhaps reflecting the public's satisfaction with the vaccines roll-out even if this success is due more to Kate Bingham's team than anything in the devolved nations.
Overall, I still think "
Mind the values gap" nails it - the average British voter is left of centre economically and right of centre socially and the Conservative Party under Boris Johnson is successfully occupying this territory.