Everyone is doing post-mortems of why Labour and the Lib Dems did so badly in the general election and why the Tories were able to make such a massive electoral breakthrough. Understandably, a lot of this has focused on leaders, manifesto policies and short campaign tactics. I would like to now move onto the bigger […]
Archives for January 2020
Why the “Labour’s been losing voters for decades” explanation for the 2019 general election defeat is such a terrible one
Since “It was all Brexit’s fault” as an explanation for why Labour got decimated in a general election last month didn’t work as well as intended, the Left have cottoned onto a new one. Labour’s been losing voters for ages, apparently, decades even; it’s just that Jeremy was in the wrong place at the wrong […]