After such a defeat, there has been extraordinarily little soul-searching by the Corbynite left, in case we should have expected any. To go by some of the comments by frontbenchers and their media outriders, it is apparently the people who have erred, not the Labour party, rather recalling Brecht’s satirical poem about “dissolving the people… Continue reading Dear hard left: you broke it, you own it.
Month: December 2019
Labour’s core demographics are dissolving before our eyes
While the election is still, like 2017, messy in terms of the multi-party split and further complicated by Brexit, the issues at stake are at least simple. For a start, no-one is remotely pretending that this election is about overall policy of the two parties. No, it is about two things: a. Brexit and b.… Continue reading Labour’s core demographics are dissolving before our eyes