Are the left the only people who can defeat the nationalist right?

The hard right can only be defeated from the left, not from the centre

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/18/hard-right-left-centre-party-politics-blair-clinton?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

Owen Jones is probably the UKs most prominent left journalist. Here he is writing about Anglo american issues and drawing comparisons berween the two situations. There seem to be a lot though they are not universal. His biggest argument here is to say that the liberal Centre have abandoned the needs of the working class and middle class people, giving the right opportunity to expoilt this. Are the left the only people who can redress this?

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fazer1k · 56-60, M

Owen Jones is strongly left wing so I can see why he would think that. Tony Blair was very liberal in his approach but let's not forget he won elections with landslide victories. My view is that parties veering too far to the left are less likely to be elected than those closer to centre (probably even more true in America than the UK). Even if Owen is right in principle, no one can redress anything until they actually win an election.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@fazer1k True but Labour increased its vote share by ten percent last time whilst moving to the left.

fazer1k · 56-60, M

@Burnley123 I'd much rather have a labour government than conservative, without question, but whether that was more a vote [i]against[/i] the conservatives over Brexit than a vote [i]for[/i] Corbyn's manifesto remains to be seen.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@fazer1k The manifesto was popular on the doorstep when I canvassed and it coincided with a surge in the polls.