I wouldn't vote Tory (voted for JC twice), and think I'm probably as left as most in Labour, but I realise that if you try and push for everything, you don't end up with nothing, you end end up with less than nothing (well the worse off do anyway).
I've created a simple table below (you will understand how this works, but some might not). Obviously there's not an equal number in each from 1-10 but the idea is the same.
I'm probably 3 out of 10 on the scale below, and I'd say most of the country naturally sits at around 5.5/6, which is why we end up with the Tories more often than not, and FPTP doesn't help this either.
For me, I'd take Option 3 every day of the week (which is where I think we are now), failing that Option 4 to guarantee a win.
I don't want to risk Option 2, as we would end up with a bad result, just as much as a good, but overall this is worse than Option 3, especially as it won't work in FPTP.
Option 4 is giving away too much, but this may work if we had a true three party system, as the centre would always get the most seats and the smaller number would be that on the left (to side with), making it easy to gang up on the right, which are politically further away in the extremes.
I think 2017 was similar to Option 2, it lost on a quite a close vote, but could could never win because of the seat situation.
2019 was Option 1, a guaranteed kicking, and guaranteed to be bad, I don't want to go there every again.
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For some silly reason the policies become too easy to attack by the Tory press, which is what can sway those in the middle, or if they don't seem to add up.
Sounds great in theory, but not in practice, because the left leading the party won't win anytime soon. It may do once the old Tories die off, but you'll get some ex Labour voters backfilling, once they start to increase their earnings. It will take a long time for the tide to turn, but it will.
The way I see the above table, the Labour members sit at 1/2, this causes a problem, as to appease them fully then it's simply impossible to win, at this moment. I'd rather appease them form a position of power, but equally I have to appease 4-6 to stay in control.
There's still absolutely loads of selfish tossers in the UK, as soon as we accept that the sooner we can try and sway couple of them, as if we don't we can't win, unfortunately. The key vote is that at 6/10, if you get that you win, if you don't you lose. Ideally you want to win with that at the far end of your scale.