What Starmer and Labour have yet to figure out is that it's all very well having a 10-15 year grand plan for setting Britain to rights, but not if you do stuff that makes you so unpopular in the meantime that you only get 5 years in power.
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They would rather see the mainstreaming of a fascist reform party than implement the electoral reform that would keep them on the fringes where they belong.
What is Labour’s 10-15 year plan? As far as I can make out Labour policy comes from the Zionist funded Labour Together which is as neoliberal as any Tufton Street outfit, bent on controlling and exploiting the UK populace.
labour UK style is shit.
Labor in Australia inherited an economy in crisis,massive debt and a nation divided.
they have been careful to nurture us and address the economy by degrees with lots of small and big nation building initiatives.They won in a landslide in 2022 and INCREASED it in 2025.
The people in the UK have a memory problem.
Milk snatcher Thatcher.
The 3 day week.
Oil crisis.
2008
Covid
The 1950s.. oh joy
Brexit pain
Austerity al la Cameron
Boris bonkers Johnson
Truss economics...
I enjoyed reading it and i agree with you that many of Britian's problems will take lots of money to fix. That's why Labour should concentrate on things they can do cheaply. Voters need to see things getting better if they are going to vote Labour in 2029. They would be able to plausibly claim to...
Hard disagree. This is the opposite of his problem. His current issue is being hung up with winning the next election in lieu of a plan for governing and national renewal
He is on course to crash and burn at the next election because he is completely focused on fighting Reform rather than on encouraging the ignored majority by giving them positive reasons to vote Labour.
We are both right. It's his diagnosis of how you win the next election and when you start that process that is the issue. Yes he should be doing more liberal and left wing things as they are what would constitute good governance. He is trying to neuter Reform attacks NOW & assuming we are locked in
They are right, 15 years of institutional vandalism will require at least the same again to turn the UK around. What they are absolutely appalling at is communicating this message and taking folk with them. They are falling foul of reacting to populism instead of forming a movement of their own.
It's tricky, I think Starmer is very flawed as a leader. The qualifier is I think he is on the right path for lots of things & and is 1000% better than the last lot. But they are burning a lot of political capital. They won a wide shallow victory, so they need to keep Labour left onside still.
Which, by the way, they so far haven't been. Which I think is a pretty mental move. It's too far out to know what will happen. But Labour risk losing their majority and having to form a coalition, I think this may not be a bad thing but probably not the result Labour.
It would seem that whatever cogs function in the brains of Starmer & Reeves they function exceedingly slowly, if at all.
The shock of election losses seems to have caused a Pavlovian reaction in Starmer but the neurons & synapses misfired.
Of course richer people should pay more tax. Im talking about the sort of artificial outrage whipped up by newspapers which turns out to have no basis in fact and is forgotten by the next headline.
They're getting there Edwin, a bit quicker would be useful. The left and right will always want to see the government fail, they don't have any solutions themselves. But they do like a nice whinge though.
And yet the Starmtroopers on here pile on at the first sign of criticism, suggesting that anyone pointing out that #Labour are continuing or even exacerbating Tory austerity policies is either too stupid to understand the wonderful work of Reeves et al or simply dishonest
#HeartsAndMinds 🙄
Labour has been handed the poisoned chalice. ALL your income bearing assets were sold under thatcher and the tories have been in power for a long time,I include fkn tony blair under the "tories". Britain is divided,racist and full of hatred and anger.
Incredibly difficult to reverse neoliberalism.
Oh really? Please explain to me in simple language, because I'm too stupid to understand the wonderful work of Reeves et al or to appreciate that Sir Kier Starmer cosplaying Enoch Powell and furthering austerity isn't actually exacerbating the divisions, racism, hatred and anger in British society.
British Labour is apeshit.
but what were your choices?
Least bad choice
Corbyn was eminently electable but even then it would take decades to restructure the economy.
We have labor here in Aus after 20 of the last 28 years of tory/neoliberalism.
Why i don't read about neoliberalism in the UK?
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Labor in Australia inherited an economy in crisis,massive debt and a nation divided.
they have been careful to nurture us and address the economy by degrees with lots of small and big nation building initiatives.They won in a landslide in 2022 and INCREASED it in 2025.
Milk snatcher Thatcher.
The 3 day week.
Oil crisis.
2008
Covid
The 1950s.. oh joy
Brexit pain
Austerity al la Cameron
Boris bonkers Johnson
Truss economics...
So, yes, let's get better in ... um 2 months....
Oh wait......
https://open.spotify.com/track/1JIzFhI9Lt5FyslawmHCBi?si=XQPXo2X-R26nbc4vDKPerg
This was mine...
https://medium.com/@edwinhayward/how-labour-can-avoid-a-one-term-disaster-a-brexit-and-pr-roadmap-28e7836a5004
He is on course to crash and burn at the next election because he is completely focused on fighting Reform rather than on encouraging the ignored majority by giving them positive reasons to vote Labour.
The shock of election losses seems to have caused a Pavlovian reaction in Starmer but the neurons & synapses misfired.
I thought they public were the ones who were supposed to be calling the shots.
#HeartsAndMinds 🙄
Incredibly difficult to reverse neoliberalism.
but what were your choices?
Least bad choice
Corbyn was eminently electable but even then it would take decades to restructure the economy.
We have labor here in Aus after 20 of the last 28 years of tory/neoliberalism.
Why i don't read about neoliberalism in the UK?
Even if they had our vote.
*And this is why I'm not a member of any political party anymore.
How can they possibly fail to see the danger of trying to be more racist than Farage?
Consequently, it's a bad strategy!
You could at least say why ;-)
Say it again slowly.
Our politics, public services, businesses and society suffer from short term, inconsistent and inefficient directives.
Let's hope 3 years time is long enough to do some give-aways.
Starmer could legalise cannabis after a scientific report but didn't...
Starmer could end austerity hurting the 1% but didn't.