Daz wrote:Eh? How exactly is moving to the centre (ie moving to the right) a more effective way of advancing any kind of socialist movement?
Apologies missed a word out, was meant to say this defeat also signals a defeat for the socialist movement bought by Corbyn & Momentum. They need to move back to the centre if Labour want to remain relevant, roughly last 50 years the Labour Party have only won one election with left wing policies. It simply doesn’t work anymore and imo if a socialist candidate wins the democrats race they’ll end up losing to Trump.
Mirth wrote:Too early to analyze but initial thoughts is that if the election has showed that Corbyn's way is dead then it has also shown that the Lib Dems and the centre ground is also dead. The trouble is that Labour and Lib Dems effectively only seem to represent the urban voters at this point
Lib Dems were just pointless though, their cancel Brexit no matter what policy has blown up in their face. I wanted to remain but you have to respect the fact that people voted to leave. The second referendum idea had some credibility but you can’t just cancel a vote because you don’t the result. Their leader was also super annoying, found her really whiny and her losing her seat has shown that she isn’t that popular. They outright said they were not gonna do a deal with Corbyn or Boris if there was a hung parliament and seemed to think they could win the vote outright. Absolute shocker of a campaign and their campaign has been dying for week.
