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  • Reform and Tories are splitting the rightwing vote, but no, the left cannot afford to further split the left vote.

    There are two ways to look at this and two strategies:

    • Progressive party will split the left and it will get less MPs. We should play it safe, run moderate candidates and try to get some right leaning voters to vote for the left

    or

    • real Progressive party will motivate voters and will actually be able to beat Reform. We should abandon the idea of reaching out to right leaning voters and aim for young voters that are disillusioned by current state of affairs and get them to vote

    The first strategy usually fails because it legitimizes the right and demotivates the left. The second strategy tends to work but is not tried very often.