2h ago
07:32
Momentum says Hartlepool result shows Starmer's
strategy has 'comprehensively failed'
Momentum,
the Labour group set up to support Jeremy Corbyn and his agenda when he was
party leader, has released a statement describing the Hartlepool result as a
“disaster”. Andrew Scattergood, the Momentum co-chair, said:
This result is a disaster. In 2017, we won over
50% of the vote in Hartlepool.
67% of voters in the constituency want to
increase investment in public services, 57% agree with taking Royal Mail into
public ownership, and 69% support free broadband.
A transformative socialist message has won in
Hartlepool before, and it would have won again.
Starmer’s strategy of isolating the left and
replacing meaningful policy with empty buzzwords has comprehensively failed. If
he doesn’t change direction, not only will he be out of a job - but the Labour
party may be out of government forever.
Scattergood
was referring to a poll of voters in the constituency, commissioned by the
leftwing CWU union last month, suggesting there was strong support in the
constituency for some of the policies in Labour’s 2019 election manifesto. You
might think that if Hartlepool wanted Corbynism, it would not have voted for a
Tory MP, but the argument from the left is that voters would respond better to
bold, ambitious policies than to cautious centrism.
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