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  • Genuine question as I don't know the answer, are there enough constituencies in this bracket to win a majority?

    Short answer, no. But there's also no majority in failing to appeal to anyone outside that bracket too. I think Labour's decline is terminal and they need to arrest it fast by changing the way the party is run. Bin off the member democracy. Bin off the unions. Bin off the Corbynites. Bin off the flag chat.

    Start talking about meritocracy. Start talking about roads / crime / antisocial behaviour / housing / the damage of Brexit. Openly argue for social justice. Make electoral pacts with the Greens, Lib Dems, SNP. Create a progressive alliance.

    I do appreciate that I'm speaking a bit fast and loose and from frustration but I do think this weekend's results show that a significant change in approach is required. Blairism won't work. Corbynism won't work. And the first attempt at Starmerism hasn't worked.

  • Make electoral pacts with the Greens, Lib Dems, SNP. Create a progressive alliance.

    The big plus with this is that it is the best hope we would probably ever have of getting meaningful electoral reform through and rebalancing the system

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