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On the @LabourTogether report on the 2019 election. https://www.labourtogether.uk/review
Firstly,">https://www.labourtogether.uk/review&qu... it is much more nuanced than the headlines will have you believe. It rightly calls for reflection. One way of reflecting would include looking at places which bucked the trend. It doesn& #39;t. 1/9
Firstly,">https://www.labourtogether.uk/review&qu... it is much more nuanced than the headlines will have you believe. It rightly calls for reflection. One way of reflecting would include looking at places which bucked the trend. It doesn& #39;t. 1/9
Here on the IoW, we were one of the 12 constituencies where Labour& #39;s vote rose. We submitted lengthy contributions explaining that to this review. I wrote three blogs setting it out in detail: https://disidealist.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/notes-from-the-cult-it-was-the-campaign-wot-didnt-won-it/
Yet">https://disidealist.wordpress.com/2019/12/1... I knew even while submitting that we were awkward. 2/9
Yet">https://disidealist.wordpress.com/2019/12/1... I knew even while submitting that we were awkward. 2/9
In 2017 at Conference I heard people saying our new votes were urban, BAME, graduate etc. But that wasn& #39;t the IoW, where we doubled our vote. I said this in a meeting & was met with blank looks. We didn& #39;t fit the narrative, so were just ignored. 3/9
In 2019, we again increased our vote. Again defying a multi-front campaign against not just the Tories with a Brexit angle, but the Greens, who targeted the seat from a Remain angle. Both outspent us by 100%.
The IoW is still not filled with urban, young BAME graduates! 4/9
The IoW is still not filled with urban, young BAME graduates! 4/9
It& #39;s not unreasonable, I think, to hope that an investigation which emphasises the need for reflection and the importance of a good campaign (especially online), might have included even a tiny amount of interest in a place which bucked every national trend. 5/9
This is the section on the places which saw increases. If you think this describes the Island, you& #39;ve never had half a sausage with Bob Seely here.
We still don& #39;t fit the narrative, so we& #39;ve been ignored. Yet our experience might help inform the future the report seeks. 6/9
We still don& #39;t fit the narrative, so we& #39;ve been ignored. Yet our experience might help inform the future the report seeks. 6/9
After the election, our candidate @RichardQuigle18 and I thought that people in Labour Central might be interested in our vote. After I wrote the blog, some individual CLPs contacted us, which was great. But there has been no interest whatsoever from the national party. None. 7/9
Ironically, it was the online campaign in the constituency of a commissioner of this report which was in part the inspiration for this blog https://disidealist.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/notes-from-the-cult-it-was-the-campaign-wot-didnt-won-it/">https://disidealist.wordpress.com/2019/12/1... as it prompted me to start looking in detail at the woeful campaigning efforts in much of the "red wall". 8/9
