Over the last 10 years and four General Elections, few specific Labour policies have been massively unpopular in principle. Several of the most radical remain quite the reverse. Boris Johnson and the hugely ambitious Rishi Sunak will be implementing much of the programme of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, and the voters are going to love it. What the voters dislike is the Labour Party.
They liked Tony Blair because he, too, disliked the Labour Party, to put it mildly. And like the voters, he did so while knowing practically nothing about it. His dwindling band of defenders point to a single, watered down measure from his first Queen's Speech, just as Labour's defenders in general point to something from as long ago as 1948. Pursuant to a 1944 White Paper by a Conservative Minister, that had been in all three manifestos in 1945, so that it would have happened whoever had won that General Election.
By 2024, then it will have been 50 years since a General Election had last been won by anyone with any identifiable connection to the Labour Movement, and that was the barest of victories, at the second General Election that year. The voters just do not like the Labour Party. They never have, and they never will.
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Instead of that, ours is the 2020 Vision of a new political party, a new think tank, a new weekly newspaper, a new monthly cultural review, a new quarterly academic journal, and so much else besides. I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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