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[arthur]

The reason Bozza won the GE was 1) he was more dynamic and charismatic than his predicessor Terry May
2) promised significant spending including projects in the North and levelling up.
3) reduced the general election campaign to little more than travelling around the country in a florescent jacket, wild hair and only uttering 3 words "get Brexit done"

Sadly I think 3) is wot won it for BJ and the Tories.

You have missed out the main reason - he was not Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn's gross approval rating was 12% (his nett approval rating was minus goodness knows how much). This meant not only that people didn't vote Labour, the didn't vote for centre parties like the Lib Dems either, for fear of letting Corbyn in.

The deputy chair of the Conservative Party has acknowledged this:

Lee Anderson said the last election was won through a combination of Boris Johnson, Brexit and antipathy towards Jeremy Corbyn - but the party will now have to "think of something else".

Tories should fight election on 'culture wars and trans debate', says new chief

Conservative Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson, who was promoted by Rishi Sunak last week, said the Tories would likely put a 'mix of culture wars and trans debate' at the heart of its general election offer

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[tavyred]

In part because the electorate did not really understand Corbyn in 2017 but various events (in particular his reaction to the Skripal poisonings) between then and 2019 showed the electorate who he really was and they did not like what they saw.

He also rather crucially pledged to enact the Brexit vote in 2017 and then reneged on that for the next two and a bit years. A fact so often conveniently glossed over by some.

 

[Radio Free Skaro]

He also rather crucially pledged to enact the Brexit vote in 2017 and then reneged on that for the next two and a bit years. A fact so often conveniently glossed over by some.

Good point if Corbyn had stuck to his Brexit instincts he would have done much better.

 

[Alistair20000]

The problem with that argument is that
Just to add that Johnsonism gave the Tory party 2 wins in liberal London and its biggest GE win since the 1930’s.

I think you mean the GE of 1987

 

[tavyred]

Good point if Corbyn had stuck to his Brexit instincts he would have done much better.

Yep.
He saddled Labour with the political baggage of being the Brexit blockers and handed the three word ‘get Brexit done’ cut-through slogan to BJ on a plate.
I wonder what he thinks now when hears Starmer, who was the brainchild of Labour’s disastrous Brexit policy in 2019 now say that the UK’s future lay out of the EU.

 

[Phil Sayers]

Good point if Corbyn had stuck to his Brexit instincts he would have done much better.

Not at all sure about this - it is not as though Brexit was massively popular save for on the right and the far left. The former would not vote for him anyway and the latter viewed him as such an idol he had their vote anyway. In many ways Brexit represented the triumph of a small percentage of politically motivated individuals and the instincts of large numbers who are not politically savvy but had a 'gut feel' that many of them now regret.

 

[tavyred]

I think you mean the GE of 1987

Maybe, but isn’t there some facet of the 2019 success that was the best result since the 30’s? Couldn’t tell you what though.

 

[arthur]

Not at all sure about this - it is not as though Brexit was massively popular save for on the right and the far left. The former would not vote for him anyway and the latter viewed him as such an idol he had their vote anyway. In many ways Brexit represented the triumph of a small percentage of politically motivated individuals and the instincts of large numbers who are not politically savvy but had a 'gut feel' that many of them now regret.

Beautifully put. Your cell in the Tavistock House of Correction for Democracy Deniers and borderline fascists is being prepared for you now

 

[Grecian2K]

Beautifully put. Your cell in the Tavistock House of Correction for Democracy Deniers and borderline fascists is being prepared for you now

Don't you mean "The Princetown Premier Inn for Recalcitrant Recidivists and Self-Loathing Liberal Lefties"? (Special room services available for a special rate - personal waterboarding an optional extra)

 

[Mr Jinx]

Nigel Adams

Drip, drip, drip...

But tbh, to be effective, they need to space it out more.