I think the problem lies in the political blob not understanding that even with the overton window moving more and more left of where it was over the past 30 years ,and yes that was pretty much representative of the voterbase as a whole, that does not equate to the voters being more and more left! If the Overton window had remained static and the voterbase moved bit by bit left then yes, there is a change there but if the whole of politics is moving more and more that way as well then that centre right tendency is still a centre right tendency because politics represented pretty much the public mood swing. Its not so much the Overton window moving back right now. People are still pretty much in the same place in general as they were 10 years ago. Its just there is a bit more pushback against some of the "culture wars" stuff and a frustration at politicians ignoring a lot of concerns to the point that everything is shut down as if the country is overrun by far right fascists when it isn't..........you wouldn't think it wasn't though by the way the politicos and their supporters and the legacy media go on. Every narrative is that any concern about immigration = wanting deportations and fascist beliefs and they spend a lot of time banging on about GB News which gets an average 86k watchers through the day which in the grand scheme of things is teeny tiny but commands a massive amount of the political machine (including guardianista and commentariat) time as if it was some behemoth BBC challenger that half the country is watching!. 86k is like Lincoln (constituency not the expanding greater Lincoln!) It is 0.12% of the country! but it is constantly talked about as if it were THE enemy! What no-one seems to talk about is that the BBC put BBC News on all through the night until BBC breakfast starts........which is pretty much BBC News anyway and then BBC2 take BBC news though the morning but these are not included in the news channel numbers! BBC Breakfast for example gets over 6 million viewers! This constant talk up of the threat of GB News' fraction of a precent share ignores just how many people are watching BBC News on their main 2 channels! Even Newsnight's numbers are double GB News average! They should spend less time banging on about GB News, less time trying to present the country as being a full on racist cesspit and spend a lot more time trying to actually represent the normal folks and do good policy!
