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Why Labour won't win the next general election:
The 'red wall' isn't coming back.
Small thread/
The 'red wall' isn't coming back.
Small thread/
If you look at historical data for some of the 'traditional' Labour seats which were lost in the 2019 election, it's clear the loss had been a long time in the making. Here's Blythe Valley since 1950.
Bishop Auckland for the same period
Bolsover
Don Valley
Dudley North (from 1997) and data from Dudley before it was split to show the trend
Every seat is the same story. A declining Labour vote since WW2. Only in 1997 and 2017 was the trend broken. In 2019 the result was simply the continuation of the original trend.
My take: trying to appeal to what you think will be the social attitudes of the Tory voters in these constituencies is tinkering around the edges.
If you don't want to be in permanent opposition, you need to wake up quickly and inspire people.
If you don't want to be in permanent opposition, you need to wake up quickly and inspire people.
