| Jaxyfoo said: Good points there Boff, but one thing is wrong for sure. It was not that remainers went out in higher numbers in Theresa Mays election. The fact is Labour stood on a ticket to honour the Brexit referendum, and gained a huge increase, which was lost when people saw it had been a pack of lies. It was one of the main reasons life long labour voters voted Tory when the next election came around. |
Not sure that's entirely true as when you look at the number of votes (not percentage) for each seat (including in Leave voting areas). Labour lost votes (from 2017 election) to virtually every other party, but mostly to smaller parties including heavy remain parties like Lib Dems, Plaid, SNP and Greens.
On the opposite side, the number of people voting Tory barely increased from 2017. Labour lost mostly Remain voters to small parties as well as a proportion of leave voters in pivotal seats.
I really think Corbyn should have picked a clear stance on Brexit much earlier. He would have had time to argue his case properly or change it well in time for the election campaign. Over two years of dithering really made him look incompetent.
So I don't think it's that remainers didn't turn out (they put their votes elsewhere as they didn't trust Labour) or that leave voters switched to the Tories (otherwise the number of Tory votes would go up by a lot more) so much as Labour just lost voters on both sides.
