A center-left group in the U.S. sees a valuable lesson in the landslide victory of Britain’s Labour Party after nearly 15 years in the political wilderness.
The centrist Democrat think tank Third Way argues in a memo obtained Friday by POLITICO that Labour’s sweeping win shows that “centrism wins elections” and can undercut right-wing populism by appealing to the broadest segment of the population with a credible platform.
The main lesson is “don’t be an incumbent”.
Tories have been winning for 14 years despite holding the power prior to elections
And royally fucking the country up unabashedly
We have a mostly right wing press over here and the leftmost publication is the guardian which generally has a liberal-centrist bias. It’s taken the Tories getting to insanely ridiculous levels of incompetence for the general public to finally cotton on
Don’t be an incumbent when people don’t like the way things are going.
When people do like the way things are going, yes be an incumbent.