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that’s a big question and will hinge very much on the outcome on thursday - a labour win will lead to transformative direct investment in parts of the country that have been ‘left behind’. it will likely mean a radical decentralisation of the british state with great organs of govt moved from london, abolition of the house of lords and a radical devolution of powers to cities, regions and nations of the union. in theory this should create the material conditions for a reconstitution of this base
if they lose - and which can probably only happen if their vote has softened irreparably in the north and midlands, then... it’s a difficult question to answer.
importantly, this labour manifesto has a lot of resonant messages for the people who (during the EU ref and indyref) were ‘coming out of estates’ and ‘who had never voted before.’ those people are not all rabid nationalists - they’re people who want real change. who feel let down by the establishment etc. importantly labour has the motivated activist base to get to those people - their job is to speak to labour and undecided leavers and connect the dots between their disenchantment/brexit as means not end etc and labour’s transformative offer/the leadership’s insurgent quality