The real Starmergeddon
A Labour landslide was an inevitable outcome of the election, and wishful thinking that any other result was possible was just that. But despite the overwhelming majority, my suspicions are that the Blairite inner circle was not sitting easily over the weekend after the vote and that the result is better than conservatives could have hoped for.
None of this is to say that those of us on the right have anything to celebrate. Far from it. And there are precious few signs that there will be any political revival. Just that Things Could Have Been Worse.
The first reason for this is the ‘popular vote’. The Government is astoundingly unpopular, as it was even before it took office. The Labour landslide has been delivered on a vote share of just 33.7 per cent, on a turnout (low, but not a record low) of just shy of 60 per cent. …
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