Ian Dunt

Yeah, there's a real distinction between female and male voters in terms of their attitudes towards reform, which, you know, it just doesn't help.

If you basically just go around just disparaging women the whole time, it turns out that a political career might not be for you because they are half the electorate.

Yeah, you know, he's had a whole history of saying stuff that he's now trying to get past.

I mean, also, by the way, looking at that candidate, it's quite helpful, right?

Like, if all the reform is so unstoppable, you look at the candidate and you're like, you're not very good.

This is the second time they've had not very good.

They just had Matt Goodwin, you know, lose Gordon Denton by-election.

Like, on that basis, you're like, why did he pick Matt Goodwin?

He's the sort of, like, right-wing reactionary academic that really upsets liberals on social media.

That's your guy.

And he had exactly the same problem.

This long history of things that he'd said about we should tax women that don't have kids, you know, just this sort of putrid nonsense that he'd been saying his whole life.

And you're like, okay, but what it takes to be a guy that causes trouble online is not what it takes to be a successful political candidate because that stuff will bite you.

So again and again, for all this thing about how inevitable reform are, when they put up a candidate, you take a look at them and you're like, you're pretty weak.

Is that the best you got?

Exactly.

Yeah, the last part I can't answer.

I have that nervousness as well, that suspicion.

I mean, fundamentally, he knows what the electorate and the Labour Party leadership election is a bunch of really quite liberal left-wing people.

That's what it is.