Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
Will they ever learn

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...66341.html?amp

A potential left-wing candidate for the Labour leadership has come under fire after claiming that Brexit, and not Jeremy Corbyn’s policies, was to blame for the party’s landslide defeat in last month’s election.

Party chair Ian Lavery said Labour had to earn its “right to exist” by rebuilding the trust of its traditional voters in the wake of the 12 December rout, when it shed 59 seats as Boris Johnson romped to an 80-seat majority.
I don't want Ian Lavery to stand but I agree with most of what he said - and disagree with Neil Coyle and Ruth Smeeth. You have avoided previous discussion about whether the Labour manifesto policies were popular or not, but my understanding from the poll evidence is that they were. The defeat was not mainly about the bulk of the manifesto. It was firstly about Brexit (Labour hurt on both sides of the argument) and to a lesser extent about Corbyn himself. If you think Lavery's analysis is wrong - why do you think that?