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Indeed. This line in particular resonates: "Labour does not endear itself to voters by treating the ballot paper as an exam and tutting when people give the wrong answer. A strategy based on telling voters to look again, look harder, because they missed the point last time is doomed..."
BobbyBriggs-
And this:
The left is conditioned to doubt that any decent human being could be a Tory. That is the barrier to empathy across which no minds are changed.
It's why I really liked the competency argument against Johnson - it doesn't penalise voters for voting for him, it doesn't say 'you idiots', it says 'you deserve better'. The vaccine rollout pretty much fucked that line of attack though.
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"Labour does not endear itself to voters by treating the ballot paper as an exam and tutting when people give the wrong answer. A strategy based on telling voters to look again, look harder, because they missed the point last time is doomed..."
Change "Labour" to "Remain" and I think you've probably got the reason why it's going to take Labour a long long time to convince people in traditional Labour seats that Labour will deliver for them where Johnson won't.
ReekBlefs
tbc
Really good piece in the Guardian today on why Starmer's 'sleaze' strategy might not work:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/04/labour-tories-voters-keir-starmer