Have now read the Guardian Goes North article. What's striking is its incuriosity; there is strong, sometimes overwhelming, support for Corbyn's programme. So, many people in Leigh and elsewhere voted Conservative while wanting to see the reforms Corbyn would introduce.
*How* December the 19 result happened is interesting. But you get little or no insight into it by interviewing a handful of people and treating their views as a coherent, unchanging whole. Why do the four people chosen by the journalist plausibly stand in for the town?
If a media operation wanted to generate new kinds of knowledge it could convene a representative assembly in a particular place and give them the resources they need to interrogate their shared and opposing beliefs, how they came to them, and how they relate to each other.
This assembly would have a chance to talk with experts and compare their testimony, it would be able to reflect on what it was told. Its conclusions would tell us something about what people come to believe when they have the time and and material means to deliberate together.
As I look around, the only outfit potentially willing and able to do something like this is Momentum/TWT. So, no pressure.
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