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Sunday 2 June 2019

Labour Party Election Organisation

The coverage of the Labour Party's failure in the recent European elections (the lowest showing in a national poll since December 2010) has rightly concentrated on the incompetent triangulation policy on Brexit, but I also wonder about the organisational side of things.

I have heard accusations that there was an extreme, controlling element at the centre that frankly failed to do very basic things like proof read properly.  If so that is a damning indictment of the wholesale reorganisation that followed Iain McNicol's departure in early 2018.  Since then Labour has had a poor showing in the local elections and a worse showing in the European elections.  If the Party has been rendered incapable of the kind of campaign basics that in the 2017 General Election it just took in its stride, that bodes very ill for any future election prospects.

Yesterday's Times poll showing a Liberal Democrat surge may well only be temporary but unless Labour sorts itself out on the Brexit message and the organisational side, it could be in terminal trouble.

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