TheGame
Full Member
In 2019 we hadn't had COVID and all the corruption and mismanagement (putting it nicely) that came from that, we hadn't started really feeling the affects of Brexit either and we still had the aforementioned Truss clusterfeck on the horizon.
I think far too much weight is put into the difference an election campaign makes to voters. The majority of people will have made their minds up how they are going to vote already and the odd performative tv debate or showing up at a car factory for a photo op isn't going to do much to change their opinion.
It's not the election campaign as such, its the performance of Starmer and Labour leading to the election and for a while now and the ability to handle any clusterfecks from their side. Brexit is still a sore topic for some hence Labour (much to my dismay) haven't mentioned anything about it. Farage in the mix has also taken the Tory vote away.