Hands up who thinks you can win an election by alienating the middle classes? I don't think anyone who thinks about it will answer that
Can anyone point out the last election where a party appealed directly to the working class and got elected? Yep it was 2019 and what exactly was it that appealed to the working classes that voted for the Tory Party?
And before that it was probably Margaret Thatcher with the selling off of council houses and the privatisations of nationalised industries?
Is this the appeal to the working person that we're envisioning Labour should be making?
But the two above didn't alienate the middle classes. And that is what Labour have to do to get elected
Blair by and large got that approach and balance correct, That is what Labour are trying to do again
I don't see how they get elected by spooking the middle classes, so the idea that not spooking them is a foolhardy errand and makes them Tories is nonsense, it's just what they have to do to get elected
I mean you can have more Tory government if you really want
And I genuinely say that as someone who a) won't be voting Labour and b) thinks the majority Labour will get at the next election will be equally as massive and dangerous as the Tories currently are (but I'd still rather it were Labour than Tory)