glancaster
In the silicon vale
Who cares? Tory with a small c, people will just vote for the real thing - unless you want to go back to near 50% election turnouts and pensioners being ejected from the Labour Conference. The problem for Labour was the betrayal of its promise to respect the referendum outcome, and that was forced on Corbyn by Starmer and co. It's so clearly a blunder...
Wasn’t it forced on Labour by the Labour conference? Most of them wanted to go further towards Remain too. The fence sitting policy was pushed by Corbyn, and about the most Leave-y that the party as a whole could live with.
I thought they should have gone full on Remain. They would still have lost the Red Wall, but they might have held on and made gains elsewhere. The country is split down the middle on Brexit, and if the Tories can win with Leave then Labour could have won with Remain.
But the real problem was Corbyn himself, with Labour’s neither flesh nor fowl Brexit policy merely a symptom of the overall problem of his leadership. Voters simply preferred Brexit to Corbyn.
Kind regards
- Garry