Do you think the press is too critical of Keir Starmer?
- The press have it in for Labour
- How were the Tories getting on?
- Labour can’t solve our economic problems without big upheaval. Are unwilling to accept that, even though public voted for change.
- Labour are communicating their plan to the public really badly. All we hear is cut, cut, cut but nothing about what those cuts will enable them to do. There no positive narrative.
The fact that one of their first major announcements was essentially ‘We’re taking heating money away from old people’ might have been the stupidest thing they could have done.
Anyone with common sense knows that it’s means tested now, and those that need it should be able to get it, but, Christ, they screwed it up. Even if they’d waited until the spring, and gave guides on how to apply, they would have looked more compassionate, and not so clueless.
He is a shit lib and has done nothing for the working class. He’s just another Biden, precisely what the plutonomy requires.
Corbyn had more left-wing positions, but he lost two elections, so I think Starmer realised that a more centrist position would give Labour a better chance of becoming the government.
I guess I’m just saying that it could be worse. If Sunak had won the 2024 election then the country would probably have experienced more managed decline.
Starmer and the rest of Labour besides a few good eggs deserve no respect.
Obviously this doesn’t mean the press don’t have a distorted way of presenting Labour relative to how they presented the Tory govs failings.
I’d rather the British public lose all hope in a future with any of the current political offerings than hold out hope for a neoliberal Labour party that are out of their depth. The sooner the farce and sham bourgeois democracy is realised for what it is by the masses the better. No more managed decline.