Starmerism won't win elections
Keir Starmer’s Blair tribute act is promoted as the way to win elections. It is not. “Mainstream” social democracy has done badly for decades in elections, as well as in bringing social progress. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the French Socialist Party was the strongest party in France, with 37.5% of the first-round vote for the National Assembly in 1981, and 49.3% in the second round. Even in 1997, it had 23.5%. In 2017, it was down to 7.4%. The Labour Party in the Netherlands was in government most of the time from 1946 to 2002. Its vote share has gone down from 29.0% in 1998 to 5.7% in 2021...