While I don't doubt they are some culture war issues on which the Left looks a bit nuts, gullible, and sometimes illiberal, I wish Blair and this type of commentary would bear in mind that total Left wing vote is not as bad as that for Labour (or Labor) alone.
Look at the 2019 vote:
I assume you can call the Liberal Democrats centre Left? Labour, them and the Greens make up 46.5%. True, if you add Brexit Party to the Cons, their vote is up to 45.6%. But my point still stands.
Blair might spend his time better arguing for preferential voting than sounding like Mark Latham lite.
Update: see this article in Quartz looking at the terrible results that they get from their first past the post system. It obviously stinks. And I didn't realise that they had attempted to introduce a preferential system of sorts in 2011. Then PM Cameron opposed it - another way in which he helped damage the country, I see.
My point about Blair is stronger than I realised - he would be better campaigning for another go at electoral reform, perhaps using a simpler preferential system
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He may well have been right when Corbyn was leader but it is absurd to say this is now the case with Starmer as leader
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