Tl; dr In sum 1. Labour has an easy fix - swapping leader 2. Bo Jo has an impossible Brexit call 3. The Centre-Left's vote shares were not awful 4. The new Tory coalition is fragile 5. They've few ideas 6. They are offering nostalgia
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You'll all think I'm naive or even delusional, but Thatcher lasted only 3 years after 1987; Major was broken a few months after 1992; and Cam/Osb crushed a year after their stunning win in 2015
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Oh, just in case you still prefer gloom, I should just add the previous post-election piece which I wrote immediately after the vote closed last nighthttps://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/boris-johnson-unbound-a-british-tragedy-constitution-trump-election-exit-poll …
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Also forgive a little brag in defence at some of the charges of naive optimism — I choose exactly the 365 Con seats that the Tories went on to win in the office sweep stake a few weeks ago, and stuck with it through the campaign So I wasn't sunny abt the left's chances pre-vote
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This is very good, thanks, though there are some big "ifs" at the end of Points 1 and 3!
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Thank you -- huge Ifs everywhere -- but that's politics. Boris took a chance and tapped the Ifs this time. Others, with the imagination, can do the same next
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You have cheered me up!
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Good piece Tom.
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Really good Tom.
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Well. Thanks for trying. You seem like a nice person. Also the kind of person who might remark, whilst being eaten by a lion, on what a magnificent mane it had.
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