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From the doors I knocked on all over the NW it was pretty evenly split between Corbyn and brexit as to why people wouldn’t vote for Labour. There was genuine anger towards the latter though and those voters won’t be coming back any time soon.
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Couldn't agree with you more on that. Labour argued both in favour of hard brexit (2017) and in favour of PV (2019) and as a Remainer I couldn't trust them, and frankly I can't see why a Brexiter would either. Did you see that anger from the remain or brexit contingent on the doorstep? I'm in Walthamstow so it was a bit of a balance this side, but mostly remainers.
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I think people focus on vote switchers (as opposed to voters who just didn't vote for 'their' party) because they do double damage - once by losing their party a vote, and another time by gaining their rival party a vote. But the reasons for both (staying home and switching parties) seem broadly consistent:
I do think Brexit generally is a no-win situation for labour, and I agree that Corbyn was faced with some of the worst circumstances possible. But many of those circumstances were avoidable, and I think other leaders would've navigated those challenges better. By the time 2019 came around, I agree, the cards were impossible and no other leader could've done any better. But there were plenty of opportunities to shuffle the deck before then - Corbyn just didn't seem interested.