Wilful denial by the Labour right continues, but a simple list of Labour’s losses to the Tories on Thursday destroys their argument

As the SKWAWKBOX has shown, the right of the Labour Party is desperate to avoid its blame for Labour’s general election results – and to push it all onto Labour’s leadership and policies as part of a long-planned attempt to take ‘their’ party back.

Instead of accepting that their push to make Labour adopt a referendum/remain position caused disaster in Labour’s leave-voting heartlands, they are shamelessly claiming the same leader and same policies that were so popular in 2017 were unpopular in 2019 – when in fact the only key variable was the move away from the party’s commitment to see Brexit through.

Last night on BBC Question Time, an audience member bravely and eloquently made the point in a video that has gone viral – but a simple look at the seats that Labour lost to the Tories and how those seats voted in the 2016 referendum exposes the absolute and wilful dishonesty and denial involved in the ‘centrist’ ploy:

Blyth Valley – leave

Workington – leave

Barrow & Furness – leave

Blackpool South – leave

Leigh – leave

Bolton N.E. – leave

Bury South – leave

Hyndburn – leave

Burnley – leave

Keighley – leave

N.W.Durham – leave

Bishop Auckland – leave

Darlington – leave

Sedgefield – leave

Stockton South – leave

Redcar – leave

Penistone – leave

Dewsbury – leave

Wakefield – leave

Scunthorpe – leave

Great Grimsby – leave

Lincoln – leave

Don Valley – leave

Rother Valley – leave

Bassetlaw – leave

Bolsover – leave

Ashfield – leave

Gedling – leave

Peterborough – leave

Ispwich leave

Derby North – leave

Stoke on Trent – leave

Newcastle – under – Lyme – leave

Crewe and Nantwich – leave

Wrexham – leave

Clywd South – leave

Vale of Clywd – leave

Delyn – leave

Yns Mons – leave

Wolverhampton N.E. – leave

Wolverhampton S,W. – leave

Dudley North – leave

Birmingham, Northfield – leave

Stroud – remain (54.1%)

Bridgend – remain (50.4%)

Kensington – remain (68.7%)

Colne Valley – remain (50.4%)

Of the four ‘remain’ seats, all but one were seats in which Labour shocked Tory incumbents in 2017 by overturning big majorities to win by a fraction. Emma Dent Coad in Kensington and Chelsea lost by just 150 votes – and only because an ex-Tory LibDem sucked away anti-Tory votes.

The Labour right-wingers need to find a better plan. Labour members won’t buy this one when the facts are screaming in their face.

But people watching the nonsense unfolding in the Establishment media might. Spread the word.

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