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!
Yesterday morning on BBC R4 they explained how Labour was not just facing an 'insurgency' from the right with Reform but now also am ''insurgency' from the left with the Greens.
My conclusion was the BBC doesn't know what insurgency means.
Also Stormer in his post by-election statement was bashing the green for wanting to leave NATO and legalise drugs. 🤔
The guy is a complete idiot.
As someone recently reminded me English words mean precisely what the speaker wants them to mean.
So for the BBC's political editor it means threat.
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Houba
Eliza MB