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I know this thread and the political whirlwind is fast-moving, but I think @villa-ru has called it perfectly.
Whilst I agree with Labour’s balanced approach to Brexit, and think his principled position is admirable, I think both are not the way politics are being played out and voters are being won in today’s climate. Labour are being visibly ripped apart, and the question is whether Boris will have a minority or majority government after the 12th (I fear the second).
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It will be Lab minority with SNP informal support.
Tories have spent their gains from BXP and other leavers, Antisemitism smearing is at fever pitch (and looking to be unsustainable), Labour policies are incredibly popular across the board, new clarity on Corbyns position, Corbyn is performing well (when not on Andrew Neil's show), Johnson looking to avoid an Andrew Neil interview, Labour doing a good job at exposing Tory's troubled relationship with the truth or common moral decency ... etc.
Interesting, when you compare this against the tweet linked above.
Also interesting. Tory held marginals tend to be slightly more precarious than Labour held ones.
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Corbyn has fucked this campaign up. He and/or his advisors refusal to see that nuance is (currently) dead in politics is destroying them. I have some sympathy for his position and it is good to see that someone has convictions and sticks to them, but in the current political climate it's an unelectable stance.
On Brexit the refusal to answer direct questions about how he would campaign looked shifty and could have been handled so much better.
On anti-semitism the lack of apology and lack of clear action is disastrous.
His style of leadership is completely at odds with what people want to see now. They know Johnson lies, but he does it with conviction and doubles down if challenged. Everything is so polarised, having a strong 'position' is more important than what the position is. Black and white - no room for nuance. Corbyn's tactics are 20 years out of date and rely on the (misplaced IMO) hope that a grassroots upswell will happen at the last minute.
It's going to be a tory landslide.