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I guess in their estimation the 'Left' have nowhere else to go. We do have the Greens, although with the nature of first past the post voting, voting Green could largely be considered a 'wasted' vote (I wouldn't say that, but it massively benefits the Conservative party to see Labour/Left voters splitting their vote). A fairer system of voting would actually sort this mess out; we had a chance to change that in '97, but we did nothing because like most parties in power, we thought it'd last forever and hey guess what? It never does. Without a doubt we need leaders who are solid on substance, but that just isn't how politics works right now. And I'd argue that Starmer is both poor on policy and on charisma. He's being beaten on both flanks at the moment and it's a poor look. Take the nurses pay rise for example. Classic rope-a-dope by the Tories. Come in with a low offer, let Labour shoot themselves in the foot by offering a slighter higher (but not nearly high enough counter-offer) and then come back with an even higher offer that they were always going to come back with. Starmer's been desperate to claw back some semblance of competency, but time and time again he's been out manoeuvred by a Tory party that aren't playing by the rules that they'd stringently stuck to in the past; raising taxes, increased spending (during the Pandemic). They're routinely getting beaten by them on the left, that's absolutely unacceptable to me as a Labour member. I'm a Corbyn fan, but he clearly wasn't a good leader, of that there can be no doubt. The problem is their so scared of the ghost of Corbyn (rightly or wrongly) that they're trying to shift the party into the center, which is a losing position when you're running up against the Tories, and a British public who for the most part, are fairy happy to vote Tory regardless of what they're doing. For Labour to win they *have to* offer something truly different. Yes they have to be highly competent and their leader has to be likeable, but ultimately that isn't enough; it never has been. You've got to offer the British public something different because they have (and will) continue to vote for the devil they know until you offer them something truly new and exciting (and viable). A strong Lib Dem vote doesn't hurt either, sponge up some of those softer Tories that wouldn't dream of voting Labour. Sorry, I didn't mean for that to go on for as long as it did. I deleted Twitter and yeah, this is my only outlet.