UK public support for nationalisation increased while Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader

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Another infuriating example of the absolute lack of correlation between voters' policy preferences and voters' candidate preferences. Keep this in mind.

The fact that voters prefer e.g. universal health care does not mean they will vote for a candidate who supports it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-party-election-corbyn-leader-polls-nationalisation-a9248511.html

The public is now even more likely to want the railways, water companies, buses, energy companies, Royal Mail and the health service to be run in the public sector than they were at the last election – to the extent that there is now a “political consensus” among voters.

The findings, from a study by the pollster YouGov, come amid a debate in Labour about the political direction the party should take when it chooses its new leader.

Mr Corbyn claimed over the weekend his party had in some areas “won the arguments and rewritten the terms of political debate” but said he took responsibility for last week’s heavy defeat, which saw the party lose swathes of seats in mostly Leave-voting areas.

When YouGov asked voters in May 2017 whether they supported various different types of public ownership, they found large majorities in favour of most proposals across practically all demographics. Asking the same questions again on election day last week, the pollsters found that support had increased in almost all cases following Labour campaigning on the issue.

I cannot stress this enough: winning the public over to you on policy does not mean they will vote for you.

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1. If people decide to vote for politicians whose policies they oppose

then the country is lost If they chose to vote on the basis of which candidate is the best entertainer, Democracy is Lost …...If they vote against their own economic self interest , they get the government- and the economy- they deserve …… We can't let the voters off the hook

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2. That's not "if": people reliably vote for candidates who oppose policies people prefer

This isn't some one-off; this has been studied and studied and studied by political scientists.