All Zac's dog whistle has managed to do is make every dog in the UK to mistake him for a lampost
It's odd because right at the start of the campaign it was Khan who was doing that with his quotas and identity politics.
Is this Crosby?
Don't read too much into this, but my understanding was the original strategy was to portray Khan as Corbyn's man in London, and stick to that relentlessly.
Khan hasn't let Corbyn near his campaign. Just like in Oldham the Labour leader is nowhere to be seen. Very wise. But then Jezza would no doubt disapprove of Khan's platform. He would never be seen dead describing himself as pro-business, for example.
Think he might struggle to describe himself as "pro-big-business" but that's possibly a plus for a majority of voters.
Not sure a few sentences on a website really establish his credentials. There is certainly space for an avowedly pro-SME Labour party, but for it to be more than a slogan a lot of thought and then work would have to be done. Is Jezza really up for that?
If you wanted a spokesperson to sell your message that you are a moderate, centrist, pro-business, pro-wealth creation, pro-tax paying, pro-British man-of-the-people, you would surely choose Jeremy Corbyn. And why wouldn't you? He's spent all of his political career tucked away in back bench obscurity fighting hard for those very things. You just watch Middle England flock to him in 2020.
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