Trying to make sense of the political centre ground | Letters
by Letters from on (#4Z792)
Readers respond to an article by Andy Beckett that said the left should welcome that centrists seem to be slowly coming to terms with today's world
Well done to Andy Beckett (The centre can hold, but only if it challenges the status quo, Journal, 8 February) for articulating the recent failures of the political centre to ask hard questions of itself rather than blaming Jeremy Corbyn or lamenting populism.
The centre has complacently stayed in the 1990s and failed to recognise that global economic growth can no longer provide for all. Small surprise that it was deserted in a variety of national elections and in the 2015 and 2017 Labour leadership contests.
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