When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. But the Bastani / Jones strategy of hyper-motivating a core of "working class voters" demonstrably failed in GE19.
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And the Blue Labour response - target the working class voters who switched to the Tories via UKIP & Brezi's, by saying "look! we can be racists too!" is the ultimate blind alley. Why buy Pepsi when you can have the real thing?
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What if there is another path? An offer to the "ordinary decent Tories" in the shires? They are probably only a third of Tory voters (the rest being xenophobes and/or authoritarians) but I am convinced there is a constituency of small c conservatives who are
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disgusted by the corruption, stupidity, blatant criminality, anti-business, anti-science, anti-law-and-order, and, yes, anti-EU stance of the current regime.
They would run a mile from Corbyn, and why bother with blue Labour's racist-lite gang, but maybe
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They would run a mile from Corbyn, and why bother with blue Labour's racist-lite gang, but maybe
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what happened in Batley and Spen was just enough ODT's stayed home to cancel out the votes lost to the paid stalking horse candidate, and maybe enough switched to LD in Amersham, to wipe out the Tory majority there.
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Maybe something crazy is possible: With a LAB/LD pact and a Labour leader who doesn't scare the bejeezus out of the yeomen, maybe the map can almost reverse itself? 2 red or yellow gains in the South for every blue gain in the North.
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I realise this sounds crazy. It would be like telling a Southern Democrat in 1976 that one day the GOP would sweep the South... and disappear from New England.
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