1. Labour is dying in its heartlands. It’s hierarchy has moved from organised shop-floor worker groups, who worked on behalf of their community & local people, to careerist money grabbers working on behalf of themselves.

2. They have little if no contact with their voter base & think nothing of carrying out localised service cuts, privatising, outsourcing & closing community assets such as libraries. Impacting directly on the lives of their voters.

3. These people are so aloof & out of touch they can barely stand to mix with local activists, citizen groups & Trade Unionists - The very beating heart of the Labour movement. They mostly avoid canvassing as if it is a menial task suitable for those ‘below them’ in the party.

4. This was Scotland in the New Labour years. Ordinary working people wouldn’t take it any more. Labour walked away from them & is now a fringe party in a place which was solid Labour. The arrogance of those in lead organisational roles in Westminster were ignorant to the truth.

5. Fast forward to 2020. Labour has now lost it’s Northern English heartlands. The same top down arrogance, out of touch leadership & Neo Liberal policies are back. The choice to ignore the Brexit voting Labour constituencies made by Starmer showed utter contempt for vital votes.

7. If Starmer’s team think that they can win without Scotland & the north of England its truly deluded. To focus on southwest Tory voters rather than solidify traditional Labour votes is a fool’s errand that can only be fuelled by ignorance to the truth. They cannot mimic 1997!

8. Blair won with a coalition of Left, Trade Unions, Membership & the PLP. John Prescott & others worked hard to unify left & right. Blair had reliable votes in Scotland & the northern heartlands. Starmer & his centrist advisors seem to be ignorant to the fact they haven’t.

9. Starmer’s nickname in the working men’s clubs in the north is Mr Remain. He is held in contempt for his Brexit stance. His Blair tribute act won’t wash in the north of England nor in Scotland. Add to this the divisions in the party & you have a cocktail of catastrophic failure

10. You have to ask yourself, where are the votes going to come from? Tory voters will always choose the real deal rather than a poor imitation. Britain today is broken, business as usual will not do. A Blair tribute act won’t do. An empty suit bereft of authenticity won’t do!

11. We have a population hoping for a radical resetting of the economy so that it works for the many. A huge voter base hoping for a party who’ll stand up for ordinary working people. An enormous appetite for change. Starmer is about to squander it to appease moribund centrism.