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5. Labour is just alienating all & sundry right now

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 07:22 AM

Jul 2015

That approach clearly failed in key marginals last time around and caused the collapse of the party in Scotland. If you ask me, Labour would be better off engaging with voters in real life rather than constructing computer models and theories of voters.

Even groups such as disaffected Lib Dems often seemed to be taken for granted.

Looking at the situation locally to me, I live in a seat that's been Labour since 1935, but their majority is now wafter thin and unless something drastic happens to halt the decline, I can see North East Derbyshire going Tory in 2020.

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