The Political Brain[dead]
What are we to make of Labour? The latest polling shows it falling well behind the Tories. True, there is a "vaccine bounce", but Labour looks weak and demoralised. We could look at the quality of its frontline MPs, or Starmer, or its tactics. But there seems to be something more fundamentally wrong. Does Labour even understand modern politics? Given that there is clearly a growing chasm between what Labour fought for in the past, and what modern workers now believe in, it is easy to see why its traditional rhetoric might fail, particularly with social conservatism so deeply embedded. That attack line has clearly passed its sell by date. But Labour shows no sign of knowing what to replace it with. The problem is, Labour does not seem to understand politics in any other way than a numbers game. It correctly understands that there is a big problem outside the metropolitan areas, thanks to FPTP. And its one discernible strategy flows from that: to appeal to those voters. Even wi