Starmer is afraid of bleeding votes to Reform. He thinks when pushed liberals will vote for Labour no matter what. So it is the Reform vote he has to go after. But all he does is making Farage more electable by pivoting to the same slogans and the liberals will go to Lib Dem or Greens.
He's making the bet that because libs are packed into cities he can lose 2 to the left for every 1 to the right. Libs suffer from being inefficient. The progressive eighth of the country is even more packed into fewer constituencies
But what he needs is the swing suburbs. Labour only won here because of Lib Dem voters lending their votes to Labour where efficient to do so. No chance that he gets this coalition back.
Yes I think they have it wrong, but that is apparently part of the theory of how to beat farage.
Or simply Westminster bubble. It reminds me of May trying to find a Brexit deal that her own far right MPs would like. It was clear that this was impossible. Yet, she kept on trying until they ousted her. I think the Westminster bubble is real and lets people lose grip of reality.
ok, and what about my question?