Burnham appeals to a cohort of voters for the following reasons: - He is seen as having provided opposition to the current government where the current leadership are perceived to have been poor in t… (View Post)

In the same way that red wall voters aren’t going to automatically vote for Labour if their leader has a northern accent or flags in the background, they aren’t suddenly going to be drawn to Labour i… (View Post)

Pretty much. They are oddly still obsessed with Corbyn and his fraction....it’s like he’s no longer leading the party. His fraction have little power in the party these days. They are pretty much Twi… (View Post)

He’s absolutely spot on re the NHS part. The Labour Right especially seem to regard anything which challenges the status quo as a deeply unpalatable, ‘far left’ view. Nonsense like that paved the way… (View Post)

Labour can’t really divorce because neither side can actually win without the other. A left wing party wouldn’t have anywhere near the kind of mass appeal to win an election, and none of those who ar… (View Post)