Posted: Jan 22, 2020 3:12 pm
GrahamH wrote:minininja wrote:They need someone who will get the party to work from the ground up. Get into communities, get into workplaces, educate the public person to person on a massive scale so they can understand what impacts different polices have, so they understand when the Tories are lying and fucking them over.
Why do you think that would work? Is there precedent for it? Why would voters who switched to BJ because they didn't trust Corbyn trust this ground level PR campaign on behalf of a leader they don't really like?
Politics is in the sewers right now. If we don't raise the quality of political discussion amongst the public then the liars and cheats will always win. There's definitely precedent, to be honest I think it's the only thing that's ever worked for Labour, it's the foundation of the party, but more recently and specifically there this:
Look to Preston for an answer to Labour’s – and Britain’s – woes
Labour’s radical localism in Preston has transformed the city, and given people the political participation they crave
Voters will only change their minds when they understand the realities and they're not going to learn that through the media, nor through any sort of PR campaign. I know it's seen as bad to say that the electorate got it wrong, but when you have people like the ones in that focus group who voted Tory because Johnson "seems a likeable person" and "relatable because his hair's messed up", that is an utter failure of political education. The only way to get through to people like that is get them directly involved and benefiting from local campaigns, democracy, workplace groups, community schemes etc.