shakahislop
Well-known member
its a calculation isn't it, that so far has worked, that at some point might not work any more. basically the decision-making is a load of people sitting in rooms and pubs day after day, talking these kinds of issues through endlessly, based on their beliefs about the world and polling and focus group data. all of which are very fallible and ultimately the whole thing relies on people making judgement calls about something as complex as mass voter behaviour.What's a bugger is that when Labour had a lefty in charge, the centrists didn't like it, and now they've got a centrist in charge, the lefties don't like it - but for the Tories, there seems to be no electoral penalty incurred by simply drifting further and further to the right.
obviously the ability of the tories and UKIP to work together at the last election and for the latter to stand down candidates was an advantage at that particular juncture. they also have some powerful media organizations that generally have their back as well (i know that's obvious). it probably also helps a bit that they seem to be extremely focused on keeping power, whereas the labour party has all kinds of other things going on within it i think. i've never really understood that last difference, why it should be like that. in general like a lot of people am way more clued up on the labour party and how it works than the tories, and never found a good source of info on the latter.