Fantastic news. Labour's right-wing social security spokesperson Rachel Reeves MP leaves the shadow cabinet. http://t.co/0ax2H4KQ0J—
Michael Gray (@GrayInGlasgow) September 12, 2015
Rob Salmond has written a great blog this week on the ideological spectrum of New Zealand voters based on the New Zealand Election Study.
In the course of his blog he drove a tremendously big stake through the heart of the old left fantasy that if Labour or Greens goes left, a large block of voters not voting for them now or not voting at all (the missing million voters) will shake lose its false consciousness and follow you:
But “pulling the centre back towards the left” is massively, massively hard.
You win those people over by being relevant to them as they are, not by telling them they’re worldview needs a rethink. It is just basic psychology. Tell people they were right all along; they like you…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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