Tony L
Administrator
You represent a quite different demographic to the one that Labour risks losing, and which it needs, both to form an electoral alliance to take on the Tories’ grey army, and to actually make the party a living thing, rather than a ChUKTIG-like marketing exercise.
Well I’m certainly a very, very different demographic to the party which waved all the UKIP and EDL racists and fascists through with a doff of the cap rather than risk losing some white working-class gammon votes in Barnsley or wherever. If you want to talk demographics start by looking at the shite your party pandered to under Corbyn! Even then, long after losing anti-fascists/anti-nationalists etc like me (many of whom are young), the party still got it wrong as it miscalculated that too and still lost by a massive landslide to a half-witted work-shy Bullingdon oaf.
The problem to my eyes is Labour now runs itself as a business with focus groups, demographic analysis etc. Long ago the party became a stale career path, not a movement for change or a moral calling. Corbyn gormlessly sitting on the fence in the face of white ethnic nationalism was the final straw and just as bad to my mind as Blair following a hard-right US Republican administration into a religious war/act of imperialism in Iraq. It just amplified everything that is so broken about the party today. Why the hell can’t they just call bad things what they are without worrying about losing their racist vote or whatever?
My hope is Starmer is playing a long game. I can’t see it, and I suspect I now just accept Labour will never be my home anyway, but I wish him luck as he has a huge hill to climb.