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    Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

    I did around 120 hours of canvassing in London, Bedford and Milton Keynes. I didn’t expect this result but here’s how I can make sense of it from what I encountered on the doorstep. 1/

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      2. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        The age differential was stark. Of course many of the older people I spoke to were polite and pleasant but 100% of the people who were rude and hostile were 50-80 years old. All of the oldest (>80) and younger (<40) voters were polite, whomever they were voting for. 2/

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      3. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        There was a visceral hatred of Corbyn (sometimes combined with Diane Abbott) from a section of voters outside inner London, primarily older white voters, both middle and working class. So far, so obvious. 3/

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      4. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        How did the demonization of Corbyn have such a strong effect in 2019 but not in 2017? Although on the face of it that demonization has been raw and relentless, actually it has only circled around the key charge, never making it explicit,... 4/

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      5. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        ... so it has taken four years for low engagement voters to absorb it fully. The real charge against Corbyn is that he fundamentally believes that British/white lives are of equal value with the lives of others. 5/

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      6. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        Our opponents wouldn’t put it so bluntly but that is what it has always been about. That prioritisation of British lives must always be assumed, never justified, taken for granted as the ground the state is built on, never officially avowed except through ritual. 6/

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      7. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        The cenotaph. Gerry Adams. Prosecutions of historic crimes in N.I. Laying wreaths in foreign cemeteries. Poppies. Diane Abbott. Pushing the button. Watching the Queen at Christmas. 7/

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      8. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        It is impossible to defend Corbyn against this unspoken charge because it is clearly true. 8/

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      9. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        When these voters talk about having paid into the system all their lives, they’re not just talking about literal national insurance payments and the financial benefits they’re entitled to in recompense. 9/

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      10. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        They’re talking about a life of loyalty and deference to the state they expected to be their exclusive patron; and now they see a Labour leader who seems to invite the whole world to his allotment, to offer his homemade jam to anyone who needs it,... 10/

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      11. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        ... no matter which flags their ancestors have spilt their blood for. 11/

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      12. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        I think this is also how the anti-semitism scandal had such a big effect on people who don’t really care about anti-semitism itself. Leaving aside all the people who do care about anti-semitism for its own sake,... 12/

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      13. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        ... for a lot of people Corbyn’s association with anti-semitism seems to represent his association with Islam, where Islam in turn comes to stand for the undifferentiated mass of humanity making a claim for equal eminence. 13/

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      14. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        What is particularly strange about all this is how it has moved away from primarily a concern about immigration itself, to a broader set of questions of patriotism, fiscal constraint, Brexit for its own sake rather than to end free movement, and deference to authority. 14/

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      15. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        With such voters, already retired or coming towards the end of their careers, talk of what we can build together leaves them sceptical and uncomprehending. It seems more zero sum to them. 15/

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      16. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        We have salvaged a small horde from the imperial wreck and only those whose fealty is proven can claim their share. I have absolutely no idea how we can appeal to such people. The idea of taxing the rich didn’t seem persuasive as these people just think it is impossible. 16/

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      17. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        They want the patronage of the powerful, not to challenge their power. 17/

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      18. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        I also canvassed a lot of young (18-35) working class people who had very little engagement with politics. Many had voted in the referendum (leave or remain but with much less conviction than the older voters) but only occasionally vote otherwise. 18/

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      19. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        Many had never heard about class politics at all. The idea of working class people voting for a party to tax the rich to pay for redistribution and public services was completely novel, and generally immediately attractive. 19/

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      20. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        It was amazing to see how quickly and instinctively they grasped a left-wing agenda while saying they had never thought about it before. 20/

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      21. Luke Pagarani‏ @LukePagarani 13 Dec 2019

        There seems like a huge opportunity there for the left to make inroads with younger non-graduates in towns but how do we reach them? Organising and social media I guess? 21/21

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