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Originally Posted by Derek
Yeeeah you guys ignored the rest of my post there didn't ya. It's not worth losing the newfound support in the left and the youth vote to gain some disenfranchised Tory voters. How many of them do you honestly think there are? Tory to Labour voters and vice versa aren't deciding factors in elections, the evidence shows that turnout is more important. The vast majority of people pick a side and stick to it!! The idea of changing strategy to entice the other side leads to the same centrist milieu where both major parties become similar and don't really stand for anything which has been the state of Western politics for the past several decades. Why would you want that?? That's not changing anything!!
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I understand your point but I do still think that while there is a need for more distance between the main parties, Corbyn has taken Labour in a direction that alienates more people than it attracts. I may well be wrong. Certainly a younger generation of voters aren't turned off by him, and if that generation bucks historical trends and votes perhaps he does have a chance. The other issue for me, though, is that I'm one of the people he's alienated. So even if he is capable of becoming Prime Minister, I wouldn't want him to be.