I know quite
a few Labour supporters and over recent weeks many have gone from saying they wouldn not vote at the next election to saying that they are impressed with the energy being shown by Gordon Brown.
Not exact matches
And the election, and likely re-election, of Corbyn is very much part of that phenomenon: from reports,
few of the enormous number of new
Labour members and
supporters are keen to become in the hard tasks of attending planning meetings or delivering leaflets.
That would mean not only that
fewer constituencies were
Labour - winnable, but that there were simply
fewer potential
Labour supporters registered in 2020.
Few would query the proposition that constituency
Labour party groups should have a voice in how their parliamentary representatives cast their votes, but what has caused very considerable ill - feeling has been widespread suspicion that Momentum, a recently - formed group of Corbyn
supporters, orchestrated a campaign to pull MPs into line — with the threat of deselection if they failed to do so.
If a man who had always been a staunch Tory could be trusted to become a
Labour supporter overnight, then why can't the
few Tories and the rest of the voters rejected by Harman be given the benefit of the doubt to vote for the leader?
I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a
few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of
Labour supporters in the last two or three months.
They are of a higher social class than Tory and
Labour supporters, with more ABs and
fewer DEs.
This is good news for
Labour supporters, who may need a lot more of it over the next
few years if Winston's diagnosis is correct.
There were no polls, for example, of
Labour party members when Ed Miliband had been in the job for a
few months that we can compare to see if David Miliband
supporters had rallied round the leader or all still wanted Ed to resign.
Totally different when a
Labour spokesman (or Green Party for that matter) had his unchallenged say, packing debates with
Labour supporters... When it comes to Islam you also pack debates so they are over represented and
few opponents such as in «The Big Questions».
He is one of a
few Blairites who are called
supporters in the media, but this seems a misunderstanding of the situation: Blue
Labour is fundamentally against the economic neo-liberal and socially liberal approach of Blairism.
Some 30,000 new members have joined in the
few days since Miliband's resignation, and unions are expected to mount an intense drive to encourage thousands of their members to become affiliated
Labour supporters in order to have a vote.
As I say in my LDV article, «
Few Labour members in the 1980s were violent, and nor are the vast majority of Corbyn
supporters».
If anyone doubts that this is the case I would suggest they knock on
few doors in their own towns and cities to ascertain what
Labour supporters really think of our present leadership.