Originally Posted by
Starion
1997 called, it would like its politics back.
Appealing to the center in 2019 will not work. How many times does this need to be explained to you people? If there were any appetite at all for that there would be some kind of evidence for it, surveys, polls, demographic data, analysis from data of past elections, and not just in Britain but from everywhere in the world.
Every conceivable metric suggests that the center-left is dying across Europe with numerous two-party systems fragmenting globally. To state what is blindingly oblivious to everyone except people like you, appealing to the center no longer works because of the vast gulf that opened up between rich and poor. You can't sell centrist politics when the middle-class is under so much financial pressure. You could sell Blair in 1997, you can't now because we know how that pans out, I am not going to vote for a centrist again and nor will most of the Labour party.
The right understands this. They have erroneous solutions but ones that are very simple and appealing to many of the working-class for all that: "its the fault of those brown people etc". You are not going to win without a plausible narrative crafted for those people.
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If I can tolerate the existence of northerners with a chip on their shoulder you can tolerate the existence of black women.