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The problem with swinging back to the centre is my understanding is that it was New Labour that killed the labour vote and put many of their safe seats up for challenge as many life long labour voters didn't recognise the party and felt abandonded and simply stopped voting, so it isn't that they left for another party but could come back, they were lost from voting all together
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I wonder if that's the same demographic who now cite corbyn as their reason. And how many have grown into voting age with no party to call home.
It seems to me there's a large section of the population who are unrepresented in politics now. They found a home, wrongly or rightly in voting to leave the EU, but ukip is gone, brexit party is gone and conservatives are still just about unstomachable.
I hope it's not insurmountable to bring these people around to Labour at some point, though it seems the messages that resonate most are those of negativity and of resentment of the establishment.Sorry for the amount of sweeping generalisations in this post. It's been a long time since I've tried to articulate politics chat outside a pub.
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I do get that theory but wonder if it's borne out by evidence. If that was the case, why do labour seem to struggle so much to gain a majority now (or, for that matter, before Blair)?
Is it the case that that demographic exists but is smaller than labour would like to believe?
yoshy
andyfallsoff
Surely there are some left though? And more "moderates" in the membership.
Interesting times ahead for both parties in the next few years.