Much of this is because they ultimately think they are "owed" votes from lib-left voters even as they attack everything lib-left voters care about.

They're getting ratio'd by Greens on Instagram and Facebook of all places, their activist base is basically dead, and they still don't get it!

I don't think it's sunk in just how much Labour in general (and Starmer specifically) have become hated - obviously on the right, but just as much on the liberal-left.

There's so much trust lost and I don't think they have even begun to fathom how fucked they are for a generation as a result.

Starmer's pitch to lib-left voters is of course happening during the same week it has been announced that the Labour Women's Conference won't allow trans women to participate.

This kind of triangulation doesn't work at winning over high-engagement voters who care about social issues!

Labour wants to win back Green defectors? Great! They can do that by adopting the policy positions that the lib-left support & /expect/ Labour to support!

Honestly think the bigger problem is that Labour is still telling liberal-left voters they don't want their votes. Any attack on the Greens is ultimately pointless if Labour still refuses to engage with the liberal-left policies that Green defectors support.

If Labour voters move to Reform they have legitimate concerns expressed by Reform policy; if Labour voters move to Greens they are being misled by charlatans and need to be scolded until they return.

The truth is ofc the exact opposite, but that doesn’t fit into the worldview of Labour leadership.

Really underreported right now how much the UK is an increasing outlier on this issue in Western Europe. Germany passed a self-id law last year, even the beloved Denmark has one.

I say all of this as someone who, until around 2023 or so, was absolutely in the soft left Labour camp!

Compare and contrast to FBPEs who maybe voted Lib Dem in the 2019 Euros, is more used to voting outside the "tribe".

I think for many soft left in Labour, they need to either get over it as some FBPEs have, or admit that maybe their views matter less to them than their "team" does.

I think for a lot of said soft left, they genuinely have an emotional attachment to Labour, so someone within the tent is always more palatable to someone outside, even if someone outside is by all accounts more reasonable and even closer to them on key issues.

Clearly we have a crisis of overdiagnosis of eye problems requiring expensive and life long medical intervention (glasses). We need to crack down on Specsavers.