Ironically, Starmer has to be more popular among Tory voters than hardcore Labour supporters, something that the Labour party itself fails to recognise. To have any chance of gaining power, Labour need a fair slice of the electorate to change their vote from the last election. Having said that, he's a long way off at the moment.
wrencat1873 wrote:Ironically, Starmer has to be more popular among Tory voters than hardcore Labour supporters, something that the Labour party itself fails to recognise. To have any chance of gaining power, Labour need a fair slice of the electorate to change their vote from the last election. Having said that, he's a long way off at the moment.
The great problem for Labour is the loss of those safe seats in Scotland where there is a permanent majority of left wing voters who are voting for an alternative party which, whilst left wing, is essentially also identity based.
A similar pattern is affecting them in England where the Tories are morphing into a grievance-based white identity party with flexible ideology. That leaves them with quite a strong coalition as, despite this alienating younger people and some professionals, they've retained enough of their existing base to make it work for them electorally.
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