1/ Where Labour may be going wrong is by looking too woke. Labour was always a party that cared for ordinary working people. Its concern for minorities was always anchored in that care for the great mass of ordinary people.
2/ Labour was seldom the main force driving social liberalisation, but it didn't oppose it either, and when liberalising projects gained social traction Labour governments put the changes into law.
3/ Labour in the Corbyn years was often seen (perhaps unfairly) as being more interested in minorities than in the great mass of ordinary folk, and more interested in cutting edge ideas for social reform rather than in the concerns of ordinary people.
4/ Some people are reacting angrily to this thread. Well Labour is losing support in working class towns, and people should be asking why. And one possible reason is that many ordinary white working class people feel Labour puts them at the bottom of its list of priorities.
5/ I'm a full-on social liberal. But I want to know why Labour is losing working class votes to a rabble of lying Tory spivs, and I think it's plausible to think that Labour has let itself become sidetracked from the path that brought it success.
6/ I'm saying a fair number of white working class voters feel sidelined by Labour. They get an impression that Labour cares far more about minorities and what they see as exotic social causes than about them. They feel ignored, and let down, by what was their party.
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