Labour's biggest issue is neither being too socially conserative or not socially conservative enough. It's cuts. People have had enough.
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make people’s lives worse, lose seats
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Wage war on poverty, not poor people.
Stop punching down at trans people.
Stop blaming migrants.
Stop name checking the NHS whilst Streeting is in charge.
In short, be a sensible left wing alternative.
However the PIP announcement just came across as cruel - a rushed, last minute change to meet "Fiscal Rules"
Labour need to answer: what are you changing?
Not "Do you trust us to manage the economy"?
However, lots of voters are choosing Reform, who want to do a DOGE to the UK, i.e. more cuts. One of the lessons that may have to be drawn is that we have our own UK MAGA who will find reasons to vote Reform whatever...
"Wonderful move, Labour; we now understand entirely why the pledge was necessary and agree that it should now be removed"
This will, of course, never happen.
Sometimes govts have to be unpopular to get things done
Let's wait and see how their policies play out
It could even be cheaper at a private hospital, unless your partner has actually seen the contract?
I remember in the early days of GP fundholding people like BUPA were offering to do elective surgery cheaper than the NHS could
They might want tax rises for everyone else, but not themselves
If the pledge is wrong which taxes would you increase?
Or they just reform the Treasury so they can think of something else than penny-pinching
But their perceived support for racism, transphobia, xenophobia, Israeli war crimes, etc. means that left-wing voters won't lend them a vote to defeat Reform. There is no equivalent of a Cordon Sanitaire.
But as far as a political party is concerned, the voter is always right.
If a far-right party gets into power because left-wingers vote Green rather than Labour, or they stay at home, that won't exonerate the Labour leadership.
It's their job to win those people over and keep them.
Forget the left, they have to vote for us anyway!
And even if they don't, they're too few to matter anyway!
And even if they somehow become numerous enough to hurt us electorally, they can serve as our scapegoat!
I don't see tinkering around the edges with PIP, etc. accomplishing that.
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/disability-benefit-cuts-pip-labour-cancer-arthritis/
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/disability-benefit-cuts-pip-labour-cancer-arthritis/
1997, Labour offered hope. 2001 and 2005 they showed they’d done things and still offered more hope. 2010, they concentrated on “competence” as their main line, when people still wanted more hope.
Right now, there’s no hope being offered and it shows in the votes.
Maybe the “sensible” option would be Lib Dem or Green? I get people are fed up but…
Ongoing Govt decisions have definitely disproportionately impacted least well-off, again. Guarantee, Reforms politics will further desimate poorest.
Make it, make sense.
Of what? What are the real problems that ordinary people are seeing in everyday life?
Since 1979 it’s been either full on Neoliberalism, or Neoliberal-lite.
And now - surprise, surprise - everything’s hollowed out in search of short term profits.
Interested to know