Dear Editor,
As Labour leaders peer out from under the rubble in the former Labour heartlands in England and Scotland they should be aware that the blue collar vote in England is increasingly suspicious that Labour is too fine tuned towards the rights of selected minorities and insufficiently proud of its English heritage. In Scotland it is failing to ride the tide of Scottish national pride. It is also losing votes to more radical Green alternatives. Furthermore Boris Johnson is likely to first mock and then steal any popular policies they may bring forward.
Labour must lay more stress now on the issues of protecting workers and pensioners' rights following Brexit, make strategic transport, water and energy utilities publicly owned, and pronounce more imaginative green policies. It must promise to retain the break with the EU for the foreseeable future, but seek to renegotiate the customs union. This is vital to renew EU/UK trade arrangements and to solve the current Northern ireland border conundrum.
Also in the case of Scotland, Keir Starmer should promise the Scottish voter that a Labour government would grant an independence referendum, but not earlier than in 2030 when the impact of Brexit, good and bad, can be fairly assessed.
Yours faithfully
Wiktor MoszczynskiSent to The Times
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