Thread by @fascinatorfun

The polls are clear – Labour’s Brexit tactics are failing spectacularly

Its “policy is specifically haemorrhaging remain votes without enhancing its appeal to leave voters”

Fascinating review of 25k voters

| Peter Kellner | Opinion | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

2/. It is very hard to conclude anything other than the LP Leadership and HQ personnel are sufficiently dim and blinded by ideology and rigid thinking that they are willing to “lead” their party to irrevocable losses.

3/ “Let’s start with all those who voted Labour in 2017. The shift is clear. Defections to remain parties – the Liberal Democrats in particular – rose sharply, while those to leave parties did not. In late April, defections divided two to one in favour of remain parties;”

4/. “by last week, that had risen to three to one. More of those who voted Labour two years ago now plan to switch to one of the remain parties than plan to stay loyal to Labour.”

5/. “... If we divide Labour’s 2017 voters into remainers and leavers from 2016, we find – not surprisingly – that the change between the two surveys can be explained completely by those who voted remain”

The indictment gets worse.

6/ In Sunderland Labour lost as many seats to unequivocally Remain parties as it did to Leave parties.

They are pleasing no one and offending to the point of desertion their substantive source of support.

7/.Tories seem to be willing to strong arm May into resigning.

Why is not Labour doing so too?
Marching on HQ & demanding Corbyn resign - NOW?
Strategy and policy reversal?

After all, most think that what they are doing is terribly wrong & for those most in need of protection.

8/. Key takeaways.

- Labour remainers are defecting from the party at 3 times the rate of Labour leavers

- Just 1 in 8 Leave voters in 2016 were Labour working class voters