It's an explicit plan to heighten the salience of the Labour/Reform binary come the 2029 election, and regarding how catastrophically stupid this is, the higher-ups in the party disagree. They think they're very clever and capable geniuses and that when the time comes, voters will pick them.
They think the polls are a good sign because they don't believe a significant chunk of voters will really abandon them once they step in the booth. Their internal victory over the left in 2020 has given them an overinflated sense of their electoral appeal and so they see things differently.
You see a once viable centre-left, social democratic party driving itself into oblivion; they see a bunch of petulant tree-huggers and immature students who are just throwing a tantrum and will be back by tea time to give Mr. McSweeney his flowers. Are they mental? Not by their sterling analysis!
Same thing as the Democrats
this was very out in the open! only the eunuch loyalists with the blinders on ignored this
If they do lose they’ll shrug their shoulders, blame the left for not turning out and take up high paying consultancy jobs
if the left is mad at them that is proof that they are Serious People Who Win Elections
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They're idiots who are going to hand the UK to Reform on a plate whilst leaving us with no effective left wing or means of dissent.
It’ll be interesting to see how they respond when they get absolutely walloped in elections next year
This shaggy dog's fur can hold so many fleas
the same as when they got wrecked in the last locals.
another new mission, I hope
Labour look likely to not come first place in the Welsh Parliament elections next May for the first time in 25 years. Luckily there's Plaid Cymru to bail them out and stop Reform (the elections are totally proportional this time)
I'll let the capable Mr. Paul Duane handle this particular aspect of their genius electoral maneuvring:
The Scottish Parliament election will go exactly as you’d expect, unless there’s some kind of Black Swan event between now and then
They watched that footage of French voters gasping in shock at the first Le Pen run on years ago and decided that was the perfect strategy for them
Their ambition is to make Starmer as hated as Macron.