I still think they’ve a good chance of winning in 2 years so no complacency should set in. If anyone watched Newsnight last night the Sutton Coldfield focus group they had on was eye opening. They were all 2019 Tory voters and were supposedly a cross section of that populace. Common themes were: benefits should NOT be uprated in line with inflation because we’ve got a ‘better on benefits than working‘ culture because they get paid too much. ’Ordinary people‘ should get looked after now, not scroungers (the clear feeling that there is a life of Riley being had by claimants and they’re not like the rest of us, was palpable. The Rwanda plan is a start and we just need to stop them coming and its immigrants that are responsible for overcrowded schools, broken NHS etc…
Finally, we had 2 of them saying that; ‘although they’ve got rid or Corbin, the Labour patty is still full of extreme left wingers and a vote for Starmer would be an absolute disaster for the economy’. We also got the ‘imagine how much worse it would be’ speech. Now, I know it’s likely not ‘representative’ but those 8 didn’t sound to me like they were going to vote any other way come the election. I got the feeling maybe 2 might vote Labour, 1 might not bother but 4/5 would be going back and putting the cross in the blue box, which can’t be ideal……
