I do no disagree that there are loads of non-voters out there, but the TUC’s own polling shows that these fall into three main groups, those that see nothing to vote for, those that don’t vote because they never will and simply can’t be bothered, and those that don’t vote because they are happy with the status quo. It is simply a complete myth and naivety to think that suddenly there will be millions (as several million will be what is needed, especially with boundary changes) that will all vote and all vote for Labour at a General Election.

Now when realising this and realising that a majority of SNP, Green and UKIP voters will still vote for those parties, it leaves a very big reliance on the floating voter, those that have voted Tory or Liberal in the last two elections and could be persuaded to vote Labour again as long as they are shown that their lifestyle won’t be affected, mainly by showing both taxes and borrowing won’t increase, these are the Middle England votes that the Blair leadership managed to gain to win 3 elections.

So adding to this that Corbyn is proposing some very popular policies such as renationalisation & scrapping tuition fees. These will cost the country according to the IFS in excess of £500 BILLION (£250 Billion to buy them and £50 Billion per year to run and invest in them), and his own camp are now saying they are £100 BILLION short in their own calculations. So people’s taxes will increase by somewhere in excess of £2000 per year.

So do you honestly think that the required floating voters will vote for a Labour government even if nationalisation of the railways polls as popular?