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Populism only works if you're popular. I agree with the premise - there is a generation with a paucity of life chances/economic opportunities and none jobs having to watch fat middle aged cunts driving around in Range Rover Sports with boots full of Prosecco and conspicuous consumption on Instagram - but it's being communicated terribly as per usual.
Did you hear Emily Thornberry on Today this morning? Painful. She made it sound like they were a party standing on a niche single issue.
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Not massively impressed by Corbyn's new anti-establishment schtick. I can see where he's coming from, trying to use the Trump/Brexit/Le Pen/Melenchon kind of populism, but I don't think that's what really plays well here. He's trying to embrace his 'extremist' image and use it to his advantage, but actually the point is his policies really aren't that extreme, and it's the political mainstream that has shifted. Not that Labour have a lot of hope anyway, so maybe it's worth a shot, but I can't see it succeeding in Tory/Labour marginals.