The 2010 election was supposed to deliver a Tory victory, it delivered a coalition.
The 2015 election was supposed to deliver a coalition, it delivered a Tory Victory
The 2017 election was supposed to deliver a thumping Tory victory, it delivered a Tory minority government.
The rise of UKIP, the SDP, socialist takeover, diffident youth vote, fantasy economics and the abandonment of the middle ground have all be trolled out to explain Labour's inevitable decline and now we have metropolitan bias and a lacklustre performance in the leafy provinces, and yet the labour corpse keeps twitching and now suffused with a healthy dose of "give a fuck" seems to be doing rather well.
Just prior to the 2017 election Labour's poll rating stood at 26%, all the pundits predicted a wipe out, yet here we are with right wingers having to move the goal posts yet again in order to frame their Labour unelectability narrative, and on cue you are moving those goal posts behind the net curtains in some leafy suburban semi and drawing your line in the carpet, there and no further!
It seems Corbyn will meet his Waterloo somewhere between the sideboard and the sofa in some nameless provincial town, and when he doesn't what are you going to do then? Draw your line through the shed at the bottom of the garden?
Just remembering how this exchange started - when you could not allow a discussion by others about the simple facts:
1. You have posted several times versions of how any traditional or potential Labour supporters that hold what would be considered 'centrist' views are not wanted in the Labour party..........
and
2. .... if the Labour party does not act to secure the votes of people that are 'not as pure of thinking' as you and others on here but are inclined to vote Labour if the party were to offer a 'genuine' broad-church and not be totally dominated by 'far-left ideology' - then it is not going to be elected to government anytime soon.
You still dodge these facts and make no apology for the disruptive and insulting behaviour.
This post is further rambling - I notice that you avoid the further facts I pointed out about the number of seats won and do not comment on the to maps I posted links to that totally prove the truth of what I have stated.
But - anyway let's move on - as I doubt that you are ever going to grow a pair and admit when you are wrong even when it is so clearly evidenced - and examine this latest guff:
1. The 2010 election - well the coalition was not a major surprise - and that outcome further proves the veracity of my comments on the need for Labour to secure seats away from the metropolitan areas. The impact of the UKIP vote was blindingly obvious to anyone that is not 'hard of listening'
2. The 2015 election - well why the fuck was that a surprise when a promise of a referendum was included - and that outcome further proves the veracity of my comments on the importance of a party (in this case the Tories) to secure seats outside the metropolitan areas.
3. The 2017 election - well I can understand how you want to make this all about the 'Corbyn effect' - and really well done to him - he was a great campaigner. But you can only distract so far from the facts - yes the forecast was for a significant Tory majority when it was assumed to be a 'Brexit election' and then came along that ridiculous (from a Tory - and in my case Brexit POV) manifesto of May's. That was the height of self-delusional and that was the turning point.
As for:
"It seems Corbyn will meet his Waterloo somewhere between the sideboard and the sofa in some nameless provincial town, and when he doesn't what are you going to do then? Draw your line through the shed at the bottom of the garden"
I think that I understand what you are trying to do - distract from the inconvenient truths that you cannot just face up to because they burst your bubble.
The maps in the links I posted - along with pure old commonsense - make it clear that I am right.
Anyway - off to Southampton for pre-match drinks - so I will leave you to your desperate distracting.