Gareth Barry Conlon
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It’s astonishing the time it’s took to turn this around, the media basically left Labour 6 foot under and most commentators said that it would take many years, even a generation, for them to come back.
Would he have been there without how the Tories have been?
Does it matter.
Re would they be there if tories were in a decent state. I would suggest the tories were equally hapless under May and BJ. BJ pushed more chaos into a general election and then sold his BS brexit to win a big vote, but the truth would always come out and covid or no covid BJ would have sunk in a spiral of spin and failed economics in the end. The Labour Party have been searching for a purpose post Gordon Brown. But they didn't need a different purpose - they just needed credibility.
The loonies are the ones who ignore the fact you need to appeal to the broadest spectrum of voters to win an election. And if you don't win then you can do very little for people / workers who suffer under tory rule."Loony left" is such a right winged trope.
At the minute there are different versions of the 'left'.
'Traditional'- Your Foots, Kinnocks, Corbyns.
'Modern'- late version of Blair and Starmer.
Bearing in mind one version is fighting for people/ workers and their rights whilst the other bends their knee to corporation power and war big business.
Only one can be 'loony', so which is it?

