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Starmer told everyone that year's manifesto should be the blueprint for Labour's future. And what has he done? He's ditched the lot.
Normal people don't care about internal Labour party Twitter stuff like this
In fact that's putting it far too mildly. Internal Labour party arguments between the left and "right" are absolutely toxic to the average voter. Non-stop whinging about what Starmer said in some conference 3 years ago is actively harmful to Labour's electoral chances because it makes Labour look like a bunch of infighting children rather than a government in waiting.
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Absolutely not. No way.
Thing is, there were policies that did win votes from the Tories in 2017. They were popular. They inspired people. Labour got 40% of the vote that year which, with current levels of Tory apathy, would probably result in a hung parliament with Labour being the largest party (though not by much). Starmer told everyone that year's manifesto should be the blueprint for Labour's future. And what has he done? He's ditched the lot.
Which gets me to my ultimate point, which is that Labour is going to be attacked anyway, whatever it does and however 'carefully' it tries to steer away from so-called wedge issues. So it might as well be attacked for policies that are popular than for, I dunno, some bullshit the press decides to rake up. Sooner or later it's going to have to take a position on some of the 'wedge' and, when that time comes, if all it has is the same shit with better administration, I'm really not sure how compelling an offer that is.