Some of the posters being rather sniffy about the government here should look into the polling numbers, and see what sort of “strategy”/ policy response to the public’s declared top issues to solve would improve the numbers. They probably won’t like what they find….
That'd be a mistake. Leave was popular enough to win a national referendum; that doesn't mean it was popular afterwards. What people want are problems solved and the country improved; they're usually fairly flexible (within reason) on how that's achieved - *after the event* - as long as it's done.
what, higher taxes, nationalisation and price caps? That's the sort of thing they'd find out about right?
I hardly think “sniffy” is the word
There is a substantial difference between attempting to reduce net migration from historic highs, and refusing to say the far right are wrong to demunanise migrants. You've misunderstood what people are angry about.
this article I thought was very on point re the current failures of the centre left and bad strategy www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
We’ve spent a decade being told “it’s not racist to be concerned about immigration” and now that immigration is the top issue the same people are telling us that actually tackling overt racism goes against what the public wants.
This is one of the most outrageous things I’ve ever seen a member of parliament do and it got almost no reaction from on the media or the other members of parliament. x.com/BenObeseJect...
Using polling to determine policy is a very bad idea. It produces a pandering government drawn steadily towards the populist right. The democrats in the US suffer from this. Polling should be used to learn how to market policies in a coherent platform politicians can believe in.
This article contains an elegant demolition of the strategy www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...