Thread by @mafevema

So true:
"Elections are won by parties with a compelling and optimistic, forward-looking story about themselves and how they will change the country. The Tories still have one; Labour does not."  What could this compelling narrative be? 🧵 on.ft.com/3rshLvG via @FT

Labour badly needs all hands on desk and this means including others from outside the now sclerotic Labour movement. In particular Labour needs to work hand in hand with the Libdems & the Greens & even include discussions with & ideas from new parties like True & Fair.

Working with other parties and running as a #ProgressiveAlliance is, as I argued below, the surest way to present a compelling, optimistic & exciting narrative of renewal & modernisation

https://twitter.com/mafevema/status/1392487888613478408?t=8m54sqYVXVBIbI6tDMP0oQ&s=19

There is no shame in acknowledging the massive challenges facing the country in an international context which is unstable & uncertain & the fact that they require cross-party collaboration. It must associate citizens as well.

https://twitter.com/mafevema/status/1353057068345790467?t=8m54sqYVXVBIbI6tDMP0oQ&s=19

Instead we are getting 👇 from Labour: well intentioned but timid & ultra cautious

https://twitter.com/mafevema/status/1467870642288709634?t=8m54sqYVXVBIbI6tDMP0oQ&s=19

Labour only wins elections when it projects an optimistic & attractive vision of renewal for the country. This is what Attlee, Wilson & Blair did & what Starmer, like an old war horse at the head of a party devoid of new ideas & new thinking, is markedly failing to do.

Everyone can see that the UK is in need of drastic reinvention. Yes, it is a risk to propose it but it depends how it is formulated. @Keir_Starmer must find that same fire in his belly he finds when he is personally attacked to persuade British people they are all under attack

from a vicious government which is dragging the country down. That is the easy part. Then the same fire must be in evidence when he presents a wide-ranging & compelling narrative & a different way to do politics - collaborative & less centralised.

The Tories greatly fear an Alliance of the progressive parties. It would mark their isolation, it would show how out of step they are.
Until @Keir_Starmer & @EdwardJDavey & others have the courage to work ostensibly on a common core ticket, the Conservatives

will continue to profit from the divisions of the opposition. People need hope. Don't let the snake's oil salesmen provide it.