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I've just been going through the list of Conservative gains from Labour. Highly consistent pattern where the Labour party vote share as down 10%, split three ways between Tories, Bxp, and Lib Dems. Most of them they could retake just by reclaiming vote share from Lib Dems and Bxp.
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Hardly left at all. Like the 4 day week?
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If Labour weren't such fucking idiots they could have hung their policies on things that would have spoken to a broader swathe of the electorate. For example:
Labour said - Labour will end the failed free-market experiment in higher education, abolish tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants.
Labour could have said: Labour will reduce tuition fees over the course of the parliament and cap the number of foreign students any university can accept to x%. Funding will be provided to students as loans at an interest rate of x%. Students loans will be forgiven after x years in a move to end the financial bondage for students that do not join the labour market e.g. women who become mothers.
There was just too little pragmatism.
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This narrative that the labour manifesto was far left needs to end. They were sensible, popular policies that will be good for everyone.