Labour are letting "perfect" be the enemy of "pretty damn good".



You want all the things Corbyn offered? Reconfigure the country? Ethical everything? End to all war? Nobody ever offended again?



Never gonna happen



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And the thing is: most voters know it's never going to happen. Telling them you'll do all those things fails for two reasons: one simple, one a bit more complex.



Simple reason: it sounds pie in the sky. You sound like a fantasist.



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Slightly more complicated reason:



It's no shock to find out there are left-wingers and right-wingers. To win power you need all of one group, and a smattering of the other.



Without power you can't do anything.



But those groups have different values.



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