Quote: Saddened! "I'm not all that well up on politics, so don't understand this. One of the most common criticisms of Milliband's Labour was that his manifesto was too far left and ignored the centre-left. You seem to be encouraging them to do exactly what they already did?'"
Its standard practice after an election defeat, whether Tory or Labour. "we would have won if only we had been more left/right wing". Ignoring the overwhelming evidence that being too left/right wing is why they lost.
Its peculiar to the world of politics, the belief that if you do more of the things that make you unpopular, you will suddenly become popular