I don't really get what your point is here. Are you trying to say there's no such thing as left wing ideology? Or that people wouldn't be able to conceive of a left wing policy? Or you think its something people say for show without really understanding what they're saying?
Of course there is Left wing ideology, I used to read quite a bit about the early Labour movement, the Fabian Society and the Trade Union movement, I've been in 3 unions.
Social freedom of expression, social equality and social services that gives safety nets for us all, and especially the poor disabled and the less advantaged.
Paid through taxation so we are all to the left really.
Does it work ?
Well it has to imho, it really has to.
I think sometimes progress is made by the ballot box and a government who have enlightened people and they get behind progressive thinking.
There's benevolence or from good governance in the form of social progressive planning.
We all are given no other choice but to live in our society, so even the rich have to back it or we will take it off them, so I think sometimes progress is through fear of getting it taken from them.
Its beginning to surface now, Mr Sunak is trying to play dad to us all, hoping to win a few hearts and minds.
As for left wing policies, we have to convince society to build good subsidised social housing, geriatric care, the NHS, Dental care (Causes a lot coronary problems) Child Care, Public buildings, Schools and education etc etc. this is what posters should talk about, and how it can be funded.
Stop the wars, just defend ourselves and not everybody's foreign business interest. But keep the bomb, it stops the bullies.
In my life I've found It seems hard enough to get this establishment to not use every trick in the book to keep the Conservatives in power(unbias BBC my ar$e). I couldn't be blamed if I thought it was all a swizz really.
I posted yesterday my generation let the thieves in to sell the family silver and absolutely ruined this country. We are paying the price now with British gas earning massive profits and saying they are using the profit for green research FFS.
We have an opportunity to get in, the reason is Mr Starmer is the epitome of what they like and will allow or even would want to be.
But we have people who think he should wear a beret and blow our chances of pulling it back the other way for the mass of the people on these islands.
Starmer may not stay around long, and we need young people with vision and an appetite for progress in the Labour party.
We have to box clever, its been 14 years, and you know it could end up being 19.
Anyway that's me lot until the GE is over.
