I haven't read the book but I'll take your word for it that there is no 'mission' - but I don't think there needs to be a precise 'mission' - that just gives your opponents both inside and outside the party something to get their teeth into and cause distraction. First, 'cause no harm', so state what you think is causing harm and how to put it right, again state an end position not prescribe in detail how to get there - there are many ways to skin a cat and being prescriptive alienates people. During a light, dinner table, discussion my daughter asked me to define Socialism in a short sentance and in order not to alienate her I came out with a 'motherhood and apple pie' answer to which she answered 'well no-one would disagree with that' - which is the key to winning elections particularly when the opposition has alienated a lot of people.
However, to say that this strategy delivered a 'stonking electoral success' ignores the fact that Labour got around the same number of votes as under Corbyn but what made the difference was the Tory vote being split by LibDems and Reform. LibDems campaigning for realistically higher Income Tax - Reform, obviously, riding a wave of, understandable, fear of increasing immigration.
You want some 'missions' - choose some populist ones:
- reduce demand for economic immigration by funding training for current residents;
- enhance our independence, reduce the amount of money going out of the country and improve employment by investing in import replacement;
- reduce inflationary pressures by investing in the supply side - particularly green energy and actually reduce electricity costs for UK businesses.
Get the economy going and redistribute the benefits more fairly - higher pay for everyone and more progressive taxation to pay for improved public services.
Question I’d ask myself is, had the Tories not messed up and lost ,what would’ve happened to the mcsweeney project would Mandleson have taken over with Streeting
Would the false idea that Mcsweeney been blue labour the middle class liberal elite said the mcdweeney project of blue labour winning back working class votes back
Had failed and reject all blue labour winning back working class votes strategy and go gif trying to get ex Lib Dem middle class votes if as such any culture war blue labour strategy rejected
Going broke broke ignoring the grooming gangs working class votes etc
The obsession with reelection is doing my head in, in the UK governments have this incredible blessing of 5 year terms and very few veto points for the minority to use, you can change a country in 5 years!!
In 5 years LBJ ended segregation, passed 3 civil rights acts and the Great Society and still had time for a disastrous war in Asia
In 5 years while recovering from war (much bigger negative inheritance than a £28 billion black hole) Attlee nationalised industry, created the NHS & NATO while building the welfare state
Keating in 5 years as PM passed Native Title, put reconciliation and the Republic in the agenda, built our national savings system of superannuation and competition policy and created APEC while recovering from the recession
Starmer/McSweeney should forget about reelection and just get on with doing things, big things, hell the public might even reward you with reelection anyway
I’ve just left parliament working for a Labour MP and agree that the factionalism hasn’t been left behind- there was one wing of PCH openly called ‘commie corridor’ - it’s really disheartening to feel like the battle is being taken to the far left more than the far right
I agree about the strange void of McSweeney from what I’ve heard and read: no sense of a vision of what Britain should be like, how it should be ordered, what its priorities should be. I can make inferences but I just can’t get a grip on what he stands for.
I haven't read the book but I'll take your word for it that there is no 'mission' - but I don't think there needs to be a precise 'mission' - that just gives your opponents both inside and outside the party something to get their teeth into and cause distraction. First, 'cause no harm', so state what you think is causing harm and how to put it right, again state an end position not prescribe in detail how to get there - there are many ways to skin a cat and being prescriptive alienates people. During a light, dinner table, discussion my daughter asked me to define Socialism in a short sentance and in order not to alienate her I came out with a 'motherhood and apple pie' answer to which she answered 'well no-one would disagree with that' - which is the key to winning elections particularly when the opposition has alienated a lot of people.
However, to say that this strategy delivered a 'stonking electoral success' ignores the fact that Labour got around the same number of votes as under Corbyn but what made the difference was the Tory vote being split by LibDems and Reform. LibDems campaigning for realistically higher Income Tax - Reform, obviously, riding a wave of, understandable, fear of increasing immigration.
You want some 'missions' - choose some populist ones:
- reduce demand for economic immigration by funding training for current residents;
- enhance our independence, reduce the amount of money going out of the country and improve employment by investing in import replacement;
- reduce inflationary pressures by investing in the supply side - particularly green energy and actually reduce electricity costs for UK businesses.
Get the economy going and redistribute the benefits more fairly - higher pay for everyone and more progressive taxation to pay for improved public services.
Question I’d ask myself is, had the Tories not messed up and lost ,what would’ve happened to the mcsweeney project would Mandleson have taken over with Streeting
Would the false idea that Mcsweeney been blue labour the middle class liberal elite said the mcdweeney project of blue labour winning back working class votes back
Had failed and reject all blue labour winning back working class votes strategy and go gif trying to get ex Lib Dem middle class votes if as such any culture war blue labour strategy rejected
Going broke broke ignoring the grooming gangs working class votes etc
The obsession with reelection is doing my head in, in the UK governments have this incredible blessing of 5 year terms and very few veto points for the minority to use, you can change a country in 5 years!!
In 5 years LBJ ended segregation, passed 3 civil rights acts and the Great Society and still had time for a disastrous war in Asia
In 5 years while recovering from war (much bigger negative inheritance than a £28 billion black hole) Attlee nationalised industry, created the NHS & NATO while building the welfare state
Keating in 5 years as PM passed Native Title, put reconciliation and the Republic in the agenda, built our national savings system of superannuation and competition policy and created APEC while recovering from the recession
Starmer/McSweeney should forget about reelection and just get on with doing things, big things, hell the public might even reward you with reelection anyway
I’ve just left parliament working for a Labour MP and agree that the factionalism hasn’t been left behind- there was one wing of PCH openly called ‘commie corridor’ - it’s really disheartening to feel like the battle is being taken to the far left more than the far right
I agree about the strange void of McSweeney from what I’ve heard and read: no sense of a vision of what Britain should be like, how it should be ordered, what its priorities should be. I can make inferences but I just can’t get a grip on what he stands for.