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How did being radical work out for Corbyn?
Labour need to win and win convincingly. They can evolve their narrative throughout their leadership. I'll happily vote for the most centrist manifesto from Labour as long as they galvanise support across the spectrum of political views in this country and kick the tories to the curb.
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How did being radical work out for Corbyn?
Not too badly (considering) in his first GE, disastrously in his second. Although, you could argue to what extent that was policy and what was his leadership failings, Brexit, Labour disunity and the massed ranks of the Tory media.
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A slightly softer radicalism would be welcome, and may actually be able to galvanise support from younger people and those on the left more broadly, rather than low-turnout apathy.
There’s a bunch of soft economic left Conservative voters who value the environment highly too who would respond well to less centrist policies as long as they don’t hit certain socialist talking points (hence some of the shift to the Greens from Conservatives).
That centrist, softly-softly approach won’t work in the long term because it’s pushing a completely outdated policy prescription of magical market fantasy. I do hope the change in narrative and policy happens after the election, but without any real opposition, it’s not clear to me that they will change very much.
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Labour are not radical enough. There needs to be constitutional reform (voting system, devolution). Among all the coverage this is going to get lost/ forgotten.