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  • Nope.

    You don't need to be representative of the broader public to win a general election, 35% of the public liking you a bit more than anyone else who is standing will usually do.

    All Jez needs to do is win back half the working class vote that slipped to UKIP and half the middle class that have gone Green or Lib Dem. Easy peasy.

  • half the working class vote that slipped to UKIP and half the middle class that have gone Green or Lib Dem.

    Ha, and the whole of Scotland, and the seats they lost to the tories.

  • and the seats they lost to the tories.

    Labour won more seats from the Tories than lost. The Tories got their boost from the implosion of the lib dems.

    This isn't to say it'd be easier, though. Just shows that it may in fact be harder.

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