Nobody promised him an ice-cream. Entitled fucker. Enjoy your solo microwave dinner champ.

The hard choice would be acknowledging the economic benefits of migration and championing it. Same with closer alignment to the EU. They shrink from actual hard choices that are in the national interest

Or the coalition that is sitting waiting for them under PR. So many natural, and currently redundant, left wing votes in safe seats. Under PR those votes would count the same as red wall marginals and our entire political conversation changes. I'm beyond angry with Labour tbh

I don't know why they are so contemptuous of the natural Labour voter - who is University educated, urban, socially liberal, internationalist, pro EU, young professional and also left wing on economics and equality. But the contempt is genuine, yet they fully expect us to vote for them anyway?

Exactly - somebody already occupied that space. And trying to stretch the rest of the coalition to that barren wasteland, where complexity, empathy, solidarity go to die, will shatter it.

He's an utter fucking disgrace.

Under FPTP too many voices don't matter, and those which seem to matter most are in parts of the country that aren't as integral to our social and economic life as they are to our politics. It's why we hear so much about Red Wall towns and so little defence of our successes like cities/universities.

Duopolies are lazy and inefficient. Labour believed, not unreasonably, that they would be rewarded for saying "we won't trash the economy like Liz Truss" and punting ephemera like VAT on school fees. There was no incentive to lead a renegotiation of the social contract, which we badly need.

It doesn't help that you have a leader who has an expressed aversion to deep political thinking, and believe this to be a strength of his leadership

The downside of a Ming Vase strategy is that if you haven't got a lot of intellectual outriders - like New Labour had with academics like Anthony Giddens - then you end up with an impoverished manifesto and no theory of change.

There's no space in British politics for Blue Labour. They think they can hold socially liberal voters hostage forever and peel off 13 key voters in 65 constituencies to tactically squeak past a divided right. It's a hopeless, miserable ideology. Made worse by the self-congratulation of its authors.

They haven't the slightest idea of how to hold together a centre left coalition and are contemptuous of any suggestion that they need to. Starmer is the least popular PM ever because nobody knows what he stands for despite being leader for *6 years* That's a catastrophic failure of leadership.

I've got no optimism for the current leadership. They've conceded their opponent's theory of the case (that everything is the fault of foreigners and we can't do anything about economic inequality) and can't credibly row back. They're cooked.

By playing the same superficial game as the Tories. They need to build a coalition around a vision of social renewal and increased opportunity that is compelling enough to break through *despite* the media. They shrink from this challenge at every turn. They're unfit for political leadership.

Labour has always had to deal with right wing newspapers, and with that dominating broadcasting media. They now also have to cope with twitter and Facebook, which are hostile to social democracy by design. And yet they tailor policy to suit those audiences. It's lunacy. They can't win...