Instead of advising member what to do and speculating what Foxy will post next why don't you either post your point of view on the thread topic or give it a miss.
Grand so.
Will do.
I'd imagine the results of the recent elections highlight that the UK electorate are on a bounce since the succesful roll-out of the vaccinations.
Labour have been ham-strung as an opposition during Covid.
It is hard to criticise as an opposition during a national crisis such as a pandemic (the oppostion in ROI are having the same issues).
Also, most centre-left parties across the west have been struggling for the past 20 years as they have lost their traditional voting bases. Indeed most of the success of the right recently has been due to their sucessful stratetgy of peeling of the left's traditional voters while holding on to their conservative bases.
As most Western economies morph from manufacturing economies into service economies the left really struggle to indentify who their electorate are. The lefts adoption of social crusades also has had the effect of alienating their traditional voters.
The result of Brexit has been the fracturing of the traditional ties that holds the UK together. The current PM is very unpopular in both Northern Ireland and Scotland (he didn't campaign north of the border to my knowledge). How this plays out I can't tell, but Sinn Fein is pushing hard for a border poll in both the Republic and Northern Ireland.
Where Labour goes from here?
Hartlepool should not have been such a huge shock. It had one of the largest votes for Brexit. Indeed UKIP did very well last time it campaigned there.
Labour needs to explain what it offers to the British public as well as highlight the Conservatives corruption and criminal incompetetence in its initial response to Covid-19.
My views in general are to the left I would describe myself as a Irish nationalist. My politics and views, like everyone else, has been fueled by personal experiences, my generational milestones and my reading of history.
