Mastodawn

As this weekend's post-mortems of the Gorton & Denton by-election get under way its worth making the key point that I'm sure will be made anyway:

Its not so much that Labour voters have abandoned the Labour Party, but more the Labour Party has been abandoning its Left voters for years;

the lesson of Thursday is taking the Leftish for granted only works when there is no Left alternative.

If Thursday changed anything, it made that much, much clearer!

#GortonAndDenton #politics #Greens #Labour

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Esther Payne

@ChrisMayLA6 Labour has felt entitled to the votes of the left.

Labour didn't learn it's lesson from loosing Scottish voters and having the SNP be in charge of Holyrood for nearly two decades now. For about the same period of time I've felt that the greens are more to the left.

Labour still feels entitled to our votes. The party needs to be put out to pasture.