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  • Some things that won't improve Labours chances at the next election:

    • blaming media bias
    • blaming the 'ignorance' of working class voters who voted Tory
    • blaming Brexit for this result

    Some things that well:

    • root and branch disavowal and eradication of anti-semitism
    • a leader who is not tainted by negative associations
    • a more pragmatic policy offering (i.e. no four day week and free broadband). If you really believe you can deliver the radical stuff, earn the right to do it in a second term, but deliver the bread and butter (NHS, education, social care) in the first term
    • less rhetoric framed in Marxism and class war.

    The tragedy of Corbyn / momentum is that they want a full socialist Utopia or nothing at all. But Britain is a small 'c' conservative country - that is the fundamental starting point you need to work from.

  • Come off it mate, labours manifesto was hardly full socialist utopia, most of it was “bread and butter”. Brexit fucked everything. not the policies.

  • a leader who is not tainted by negative associations

    I don't think this is relevant.

    Boris Johnson has just as many negative associations.

    They were willfully ignored.

  • perfect summary

  • Also this, I know Corbyn didn't want to play the I'm not an anti-semite/terrorist sympathiser game because of course he's not, but it's the game we HAVE to play. The next leader will need to appear contrite and hack any anti-semitism out.

    Keep the 4-day week stuff to yourself until all the other more pressing issues are off the table. I applaud their vision for the future but most voters just want to know what they're going to do for them in the next year or so, get in power then start rolling out the free train travel and nationalised internet cafes.

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