General Election 2019

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People keep trying to argue for single issue post rationalisations. Please stop.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/december/labour-s-defeat?fbclid=IwAR3rUaCI-lXhi-IthUXEf4C93g5yXGOpX6-S4fOC0ntw5CttDBrlhOHUUA8

There wasn’t an obvious way for Labour to have won this election. The usual bromides will be offered up: it was Corbyn, no, it was Brexit, no, it was the manifesto, no, it was the press, no, it was credibility. All of them are in various ways true, but in all ways only partial: attitudes to Corbyn have hardened considerably since 2017; Brexit blew open a long persistent crack in Labour’s voter base; the press is execrable and even harder to deal with in the digital era.

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From the same article:

the electoral wasteland confronting the avowed centrist parties in this election suggests that wasn’t where Labour’s lost vote went.

Lib Dems increased their total votes by 60% and gained 1.3m votes. They also increased their share of the vote in many traditional labour seat tories gained from labour. It didn't translate to success in fptp, but Lib Dem increased vote was a factor in outcomes nationwide. Can't help but think that LRB analysis is ignoring the data.

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Lib Dems increased their total votes by 60% and gained 1.3m votes. They also increased their share of the vote in every traditional labour seat tories gained from labour. It didn't translate to success in fptp, but Lib Dem increased vote was a factor in outcomes nationwide. Can't help but think that LRB analysis is ignoring the data.

Only 10,000,000 more votes to go.
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miro_o in reply to @deleted

Jo Swinson said they’d increased their vote share by 4.2% according to the BBC.

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