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« Last post by stone on Yesterday at 09:31:20 pm »
Just to clarify, I'd merely like something like Labour's GE2017 manifesto to be their manifesto (I guess I should say "our" manifesto since I'm still a member).
Starmer said that GE2017 manifesto ought to be "Labour's foundational document" when he was running for Labour leader in 2020. All that manifesto would be doing would be introducing some trade union rights that work well in Nordic countries such as sectorial collective bargaining; adequately funding basic public services; having normal European tax levels for the very wealthy; and not just playing lip service to our climate commitments.
My understanding is the reason why we aren't able to vote for that is far from being because that wouldn't be popular. In 2017, Labour increased their vote massively (not enough though). That caused huge consternation and a very determined effort to stop that close shave from being built upon. The 2019 election was essentially just a rerun of the 2016 Brexit referendum but on a FPTP basis and gave the result that would always give. Keir became Labour leader by lying. He has put people in all the key positions from a wing of the Party who didn't get a look in even in the 2015 leadership election let alone 2020.
If the Tories had no anxiety about Corbyn type policies, then why do they talk in such glowing terms about how Boris defeated Corbyn? Surely it should have been a non-event walk over since no-one would vote for that anyway.
The manoeuvring that has gone on to create "changed Labour" since 2020 has been extraordinary. Mass suspensions of constituency delegates the week before Labour conferences where there were votes that changed the rules on things such as member representation. The new set of parliamentary candidates have been extremely tightly controlled by the "changed" central party. There used to be a route by which trade unionists were mentored and supported to become parliamentary candidates (that's how Angela Rayner became an MP). No one on that system was selected this time.
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