Jeremy Corbyn and the grass roots lefties really did a number on the Labour Party there, didn't they?
I think the right ones to blame are Blair and Brown.
But Labour has the same problem as many social democratic parties across Europe have.
The conservatives are simply telling people that voted labour for 57 years and haven't yet stopped voting or switched to UKIP out of anger: "Eh, how's that working out for ya?"
Not to mention that in Europe the conservative parties are also supporting the climate change policies and gay marriage and such.
Then the left goes and runs a campaign on diversity, inclusivity, climate and all that backed by NGO's and left wing media and polls show people mainly care about healthcare, ze economy, education and migration.
Topics they barely talk about. Across Europe the left is no longer appealing to working class voters.
And for each millenial liberal arts student they painstakingly persuade to go vote for the first (and possibly only) time in their lives they lose 5 votes to other parties.
I don't see how they get out of this predicament. Labour was fucked on Brexit, the working classes supported it and the big cities didn't. So they had to decide what mattered more.
They're always stuck between: "You're too radical" or "You're not doing enough".
Conservative voters simply vote to 'keep things as they are' because they are doing well themselves or 'to lower taxes' because the government sucks anyway.
Most conservative parties have also completely shunned ideology they just present themselves as 'managing things well' even if they've literally ran everything into the ground with no ideas on how to change or improve things.
