whilst fists are shaken at "the 1%", it's the top 20% that are getting nervous.
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MadriMaraff 3h ago 3 4
The problem Labour has is that whatever one thinks of Jeremy Corbyn, I do not hear him trying to win over the middle-class, leafy suburbs . If you look at where the battleground, swing constituencies that decide elections it's places like these. It's great that JC wants to improve the lot of the poor, but it will be at the expense of the better-off. And decreasing the gap between rich and poor doesn't just involve raising one group without lowering another.
The simple fact is that whilst fists are shaken at "the 1%", it's the top 20% that are getting nervous. They look at the JC formula and think it will make their living standards go down. This may or may not be the case, but they don't feel like JC is talking to them or trying to persuade them to join in (beyond "it'll make other people's lives better!").