Disregarding her accent, education, intelligence and actual views I think the net of it is that she just isn't a good enough communicator to get her message across in an effective way. Her style will never have broad appeal and seems only to cut through when she is being divisive in some way.
You can't really expect to win votes from people when you are telling them they voted for scum. That sort of thing is OK for getting onside with angry activists but it's naive to think that such comments won't be widely reported.
For many she was a compromise candidate in the deputy leadership election. Essentially lightweight, satisfyingly anti-Conservative, and not Richard Burgon. I don't think Rosena Allin Khan was the ideal candidate but I think she would have been a better choice.
It's tragic that Labour is being so hopeless when the government offers them one open goal after another.
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