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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

The left has been purged completely from labour, which is a weird way to surrender your party to the loudest, "woke" mob.

This is largely correct but it's left behind a husk and not much more; a barebones collection of people without a core ideology lurching between New Labour and Corbynism instead of wiping the table and refocussing on the core issues that centre-left voters are actually concerned with, areas that are being failed in massively by the Tories as you've pointed out.

Given that and your other thread, there are two things I'd add to what I said before;

I think labour have been very guilty of performative "wokeness", or what might often be termed "champagne socialism" in an attempt to appeal to a group that seems bigger than it is, because it's louder than its size in numbers, but a lot of that rhetoric and a lot of those policies don't appeal whatsoever to the centre-left, or really, just to the average joe who can largely see that the Tories are uncaring scum but are more afraid of that loud group of moral absolutists. "Better the devil" and all that.

Which plays into the second point I had here; you point out that the left has been pretty much purged, I agree or at least agree that the top of the party is trying hard to do so, however ... it would be a massive assumption to think that the bulk of voters are politically active or aware enough to actually know what's happening within Labour. Labour will = Corbyn for quite a few years to come in the minds of the less-politically-engaged.