General Election 2019

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greentricky in reply to @yoshy

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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andyfallsoff in reply to @greentricky

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?

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