You cannot judge anything by what happened in Manchester. What you are seeing is tactical voting. Many, rightly, are terrified of Reform winning a general election for several reasons:
1 The concept of spending £2 billion to set up an ICE agency.
2 The proposal to abolish the Equalites Act and the Employment Protection Act.
What the voting does is to provide a message to the Labour Party which they haven’t picked up. Many people on this forum have spelled it out, so i cannot understand why they haven’t got it. It is quite simple. Starmer must stop placating Farage and instead attack him. He must recognize that we need legal immigrants for the NHS and care in general. He should reverse the policy of preventing legal immigrants coming into this country and say he will do everything he can to send illegal immigrants packing within International Law. He should point out the dangers we would face if we ingored International Law.
In short Starmer should realise he is the leader of the Labour Party, not the Conservative Light Party. It is hoped his back benchers will now get the message through.