If only someone warned them! (as always they were fighting the last war)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahalothman/labour-activists-marginal-seatsThe thing about the targeting is that we knew at the start of the campaign that it was a largely defensive one; with our route into government resting on holding seats in the Midlands & North, and winning 10-20 Tory marginals that we missed out on last time ( we won 1 of these; Putney) so that we could lead a minority government.
The seats being targeted were ridiculous; it's of course a long running problem that target seat lists are done to massage the egos of the Labour leaders; Gordon had one way too long because his team didn't want to tell him they were getting slaughtered, Ed's one was ridiculously long because they were high in 2013 about winning, we had a defensive one in 2017 because for the first 6 weeks our data pointed to a 2019 level defeat & no-one (including JCs own team) had a way of tracking the surge & swing that late in the campaign.
So this was a pretty hilariously of of touch strategy at the beginning; and by week 3-4 it was pretty clear that we weren't closing the gap (the TV Debates & Trump visit were seen as the big events that could change it)
Of course LOTO & parts of HQ believed that the polls were wrong; but on the ground this time the MPs who knew there patches were doing voter ID and knew what was happening, and they warned about this.
Of course seeing as the partys response was to send Ian Lavery & Richard Burgon around some seats I doubt if I'd have wanted much support!