Rasenimp
Vital Football Legend
You make some really good observations there simes. Taking it one step further is in the event of somebody in Labour very sensibly getting to understand the red wall issues; what happens next to satisfy the very different factions within Labour.
There are strong Metropolitan areas within the Labour movement who are highly likely to hold very different views on many core issues to those of the working class heartlands. Quite how a Labour leader comes up with policies that keep both ends of that equation happy is very tricky and the danger of bland fudges on policy that satisfy nobody can be the result.
Agreed - clearly it was just one side of that coin a lot of the time under Corbyn. It's quite difficult to reconcile especially with some of the identity politics type stuff (and culture war bits where possible). I've heard a number of tories including Raab keen to play up Starmer's support/kneeling on black lives matter (as an example) - which is probably not something labour heartlands are that keen on , but popular with the more metropolitan/liberal voters.
Same with extinction rebellion/climate change, where tying labour to more extreme positions is probably the aim (think most of the country is thankfully there on climate change now, so it has to be painting them as one step further)?