How does Labour win an election where concerns over immigration, Islamophobia etc are dominant themes?

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Worse, if you insist that there isn't enough money and deny that there are too many people in the same breath, voters will (rightly) distrust you and start listening to the likes of Farage.

I agree with this, except Labour are already all over the 'yes there are too many people' argument aren't they.

Which I think points up part of the problem for them - they're not appealing to the people they think they are with that stuff because Reform are more authentic with it.

 

[Brownlow]

I agree with this, except Labour are already all over the 'yes there are too many people' argument aren't they.

Which I think points up part of the problem for them - they're not appealing to the people they think they are with that stuff because Reform are more authentic with it.

Yeh, they make perfunctory anti-immigration noises when prompted, which help Reform, not Labour. I wouldn't say they're "all over" it. They don't connect too many people with not enough to go round, like voters do when politicians keep saying not enough money to fix healthcare, housing etc.

That's why Labour need to stop saying it. They won't win that game; someone worse than the Tories will.

It's b/s anyway, even if it's what voters believe. "Not enough money" is meaningful at the microeconomic level of a household, but not an economy with its own currency. The macroeconomic constraint is real resources including people.