Now hang on a second, Tony Blair never lost an election.
This is the last election he fought, in 2005:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...election,_2005
You can clearly see that Labour's heartland in Scotland is largely in tact, the SNP has made only small gains at this point and Labour is very much the party of Scottish Government, in the Scottish Parliament too irrc.
Labour loses it's first election in 2010 under Gordon Brown, who is generally considered to have been Left of Blair, and does even worse in 2015 under Ed Milliband who was significantly to the Left of both. Indeed, the SNP's almost clean sweep happened under "Red Ed". Now Labour has lost a By-Election to a sitting Government in a time of economic uncertainty under the Far-Left Corbyn.
At this point simply claiming "we weren't Left-Wing enough" is not credible. The more Left-Wing Labour goes the less the public is buying what they're selling. That's not surprising, really, because the General Public don't want a Left-Wing or Right-Wing government - they want a Centerist one. That's why Blair and Cameron both did well, because they represented the more Centrist parts of their own parties, and they nabbed good ideas "from the other side."
Even that isn't really the problem, though, because the reality is that politics aside Corbyn is not a good leader. He applied a three-line whip to the Brexit vote and then didn't punish MP's that rebelled.
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