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Originally Posted by JoshBB

Last I heard, Liz Kendall is to the right of the Labour party and is very much favours the ideology of market-driven policies, and wishes to return labour to the centre ground. Is that correct?

If so, she may as well write a suicide note on behalf of Labour in advance. It is obvious that nobody on the right will vote Labour, they are set in their views and many view them as commies anyway. In all honesty what she really ought to be doing is taking Labour back to its grassroots - begin to appeal back to the voters who have been left behind and gone to the greens & SNP, she needs to start taking on the xenophobia perpetuated by UKIP, not offering a watered down version. The same with cuts. what's the point of ousting the tories if all we're going to get is tory-lite?

I can vote in the next general election, and I will only consider voting Labour if they can return to being a party of morals and equal opportunity. Not this centre-right crap they're trying to push off as "centrist and sensible".

Blair's great success was in persuading people who never thought they would vote Labour ordinarily to do so, a lot of Conservatives included. 'Old' Labour have not won an election since 1974.