Why do what your actual voters want though? Why not alienate them by chasing the right wing voters that'll never vote for you anyway? It's all a grand master plan. Or something.
No blue Labour, those policies are threatening not only the Government but the Labour Party as well. We are a party of the left and care about those in poverty or marginalised together with the disabled and pensioners.
Spinning a stuffing as a validation of direction of travel is quite some interpretation. Does Starmer really listen to McSweeney/Glasman? They've alienated core voters many can't be bothered, they've failed to acknowledge their majority involved heavy tactical voting. Starmer needs to think!
McSweeney focussing on immigration, whilst Labour has pursued economic policies that penalise the vulnerable & favour big business has played into the hands of reform who if nothing else are very good at emotionally connecting with those left behind.
It's appalling morally & terrible politics.
Yeah because the country needs a centre right party. Honestly, are these people on crack? Because I'd love to know what blue meth they've been smoking.
The best campaign in the world couldn't have saved Starmer's Labour. They're dying, they deserve to die, and it's entirely the fault of Starmer, Streeting, Phillipson, Reeves, etc.
LOL. Labour voters stayed home in Droves and Tory voters switched to Reform. "Blue Labour" really working out there. At this point McSweeney is indistinguishable from a Reform Entryist
Given McSweeney is the alleged mastermind behind Starmer’s Labour policy vacuum and dismal & declining level of popularity, I am surprised that he isn’t poring over the job opportunities offered by the soul mates in the Tory Party.
He’s been living off the back of a 2008 council win and he’s stealing a living. If anything he’s the ultimate description of a career SPAD or politician in this time period. Absolute prat only sees what he wants to see.
These lads need (and lasses but I suspect they are generally lads) really need to give their heads a wobble. I have out myself up for candidacy twice now advocating a different approach to campaigning and both seats have now been lost and I haven’t even been given the chance to make the case to clp
It's increasingly funny that McSweeney for all who his supposed sophisticated comms strategy and appealing to joe soap over wokeness or whatever, never learned the iron lesson of Irish politics. Just fix shit.
If the master plan is to sail very close to Reform while also offering something different/better it might be time to start thinking about the different/better bit
More evidence for the theory about how many politicians regard having to U-Turn and admit they were wrong as more humiliating than actually losing office…
This part! You're never going to out-Reform Reform! Tories are trying and failing. Sure you're hamstrung by the fact that almost everyone who votes is over 60, but y'know, I'm sure you can pitch something that vaguely appeals infrastructure-wise
I’m just busking at this, it’s not my job, but I’m beginning to think that at GE 2024, everyone just REALLY hated the Tories, rather than McSweeney being a master strategist…? 🤔🤨
And he seems to labour under the misapprehension that our progressive votes are in the bag under FPTP as we’ll continue to vote tactically to keep out Tories and Reform…by becoming Tory & Reform lite 😏
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All I’ll say in defence of my complete lack of any qualified ability, is that I wish some news outlets had similar skepticism of their skill of diagnosis 😁
It's because you are an "amateur" that you can say what you like. "Professional" journalists tend to follow a script/tendency/vibe (otherwise they lose their sources).
Never experienced everyone hating the Tories. At the GE, if it was a tory thing, it would have been because of anger re. their boy Boris being censured. History proves how complex it is for Labour to be in power and to govern, and how easy it is to piss it away. Let’s not do the nay sayers’ job them
Just saw an article about a new project launched by Trump and Elon Musk — it sounded too crazy to be true, but my boyfriend and I decided to check it out. We used the promo code and actually received a reward. Still in shock, but it’s real!
The next Labour PSB is going to be Starmer somberly talking to the camera whilst in the background, McSweeney punches Ed Miliband who's wearing a T-shirt that says "Net Zero".
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How about 'at least slightly-red Labour'? That might work. You know, what last year's voters thought they were going to get?
It's appalling morally & terrible politics.
And it turns out what he likes doing is losing by-elections.
You would reach more people, when you add a good description into the Alt-text field.
That is pretty easy, especially, when your image just contain text.
This way, you support visually impaired people and everyone else, who rely on a good filled Alt-text.
#accessibility
This is exactly what they did with Trump and NATO too.
All I’ll say in defence of my complete lack of any qualified ability, is that I wish some news outlets had similar skepticism of their skill of diagnosis 😁
In 2025 - Conservatives and Reform had a combined vote of 14,986
Labour need to realise those voters are are not coming to them and to appeal to the rest
When will they wake up 🤷🏼♂️