Twitter is full of wrong takes on Labour's Hartlepool loss
Was Labour too left/not left enough?
Would Corbyn have done better than Starmer?
Should Labour have been more/less pro-Brexit?
Wrong candidate, chosen the wrong way?
I don't care about any of them
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Hartlepool calls that into question. Should Labour go *even further* in that direction? Or - as Jean-Marie Le Pen once said - when faced with a choice between the original and a copy, will go with the original?
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Instead it seems to me there is an obvious - although hard - way back for Labour. It is to relentlessly stick to the territory where its policies - on economic policy - are more in line with those of the English population than the Tories are.
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In other words: it's the economy, stupid. We, Labour, will get you more money in your pocket. Better food on your table. A more secure and better job for you and your family.
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Make an election about jobs, equality, poverty. Schools, the NHS. Hammer on relentlessly about how England (and especially places like Hartlepool!) ought to be better places to live for people than they are.
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This would also lead Labour towards partially solving the Brexit problem. Not to advocate rejoin (that is out), but for a closer economic relationship with the EU - because that's important for the future of the economy.
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And then closer to a General Election try to seek some sort of Progressive Alliance with Lib Dems, Greens, and even SNP and Plaid Cymru with the promise of electoral reform - to finally allow British politics to have the sort of party political diversity the rest of Europe has.
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Will all of this work? I don't know for sure. But it seems to me the only viable route - to stop Labour tearing itself apart internally, and to focus on where there *is* an overlap with what Labour wants and what the population says it wants. /ends
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Wrapping themselves in the Union flag was a total disaster. Instead, Labour should be explaining that patriotism means feeding hungry schoolchildren from disadvantaged backgrounds and protecting jobs (without necessarily stating "from Brexit"). Not hollow flag waving.
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