>be starmer >win once in a generation gazillion seat majority >do nothing for a year - ThreadSky

sharonk.bsky.social • 1 day ago

>be starmer
>win once in a generation gazillion seat majority
>do nothing for a year

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bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social•1 day ago

doing nothing would probably be an improvement tbf

rvonpoofton.bsky.social•1 day ago

>also be racist

squiggleysam.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh he’s done plenty. Plenty of nothing that the people who voted him in asked for.

itsdoug.ca•1 day ago

>decide to be a bigot in public instead of private

motosunburn.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nothing?? Have you been asleep? Here's just the first 6 months.

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/the-first-6-months-what-has-labour-actually-done/

stairwaytokevin.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’d almost be better if they did absolutely because what they have done has been bad

aethelfleda.bsky.social•1 day ago

What did you think of speech today?

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well vowing to eviscerate disability benefits in lieu of raising taxes on the rich at all and echoing right-wing talking points on migration is...*something*.

kenmegalopsuxos.bsky.social•1 day ago

Beginning to believe the British righties (and lefties) that Labour is having its final hurrah before being swept away permanently like the Liberal Party in the next election.

huwtd.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tough on action, tough on the causes of action

snufkinlib.bsky.social•1 day ago

> then panic and be racist

onetruestephen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Beat me to it

danieltuke.bsky.social•1 day ago

The goddamn liberals are gonna get everyone killed, example 84839

nicolaboo.bsky.social•1 day ago

or for the next four either!

metabluesky.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nothing has ever been the greatest enemy of the Labour Party as.....the Labour Party. Even the most unhinged Reform UK retooled British Union of Fascists lunatic couldn't come close in their wildest wet dreams.

chathamharrison.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's very confusing as someone who is accustomed to envying parliamentary government's ability to implement a party program

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•1 day ago

A lot of why I'm less mad toward the Democrats as a whole (with exceptions like Fetterman, naturally) *is* just my fear of Trump, but a good part of it is that Labour looks like it's deliberately trying to be a lesson in how awful an ostensibly center-left party can be.

coasterspaul.bsky.social•1 day ago

getting convinced at this point that actually, pretty baseline Dems would be radically, unimaginably far-left in that accursed land

whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unless Starmer has access to some completely-accurate, earth-shattering, top secret data & numbers compelling him to try outdoing Reform UK, I have to conclude that Starmer is a lazy idiot that lucked out on winning big and doesn't know what to do w/ himself except rely on consultants w/ brain rot.

thatgarthguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

The issue is that Labour just...doesn't have one

Starmer ran as a pretty lefty guy for the leadership election, moderated to the centre almost straight away, and has been chasing whatever is number 1 in the polls in government (and constantly backtracking when things don't go to plan)

It's shit

s3rp86.bsky.social•1 day ago

This Labour just doesn't seem have one. They won the election by point and the Tories and rightfully saying this sucks. Yeah turns out that was all they had.

insidejoke.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seems like the platform is following issue polling with a disturbing amount of passionate intensity.

skullelongator.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honestly it’s a huge vindication for Corbyn that Starmer and the Labour Right did everything they could to tack to the center and ended up getting fewer votes

lowrhoufo.bsky.social•1 day ago

A cult of inaction for inaction's sake

niral.bsky.social•1 day ago

The democrats will quite possibly get a similar wave election in 26 and 28. The current party leadership includes people who would equally fumble the moment while staggering right

mister-sterling.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not nothing! He's letting NHS die and making life complete hell for trans people. It's what the British voters want, right?

neilsnyder.bsky.social•1 day ago

Say what you want about previous Labour governments - and there is a LOT to say - but none could match the sort of rudderless ineptness of Starmer.

azery.bsky.social•1 day ago

well, yes and no.

Starmer's govt is very Old Labour but with a ton of Blairite-cargo cultists in leadership and the issue is that Old Labour kind of fucking sucked and the Blairites don't even really remember the shit New Labour did

alex-mann.bsky.social•1 day ago

I would say that a lot of Starmer's "old Labour" people aren't actually the Old Right, they're more like Blue Labour people, which until Starmer decided to adopt them were a powerless bunch of weirdos without a real base in the party.

alex-mann.bsky.social•1 day ago

Starmer seems to have been flailing about for an ideology and McSweeny has given him one, and it's both not Old Right "jobs for the boys" right unionism, and also not Blairite basically being the Democrats but with some more community program stuff. It's bizarre.

alex-mann.bsky.social•1 day ago

There's not a market for this stuff, the kind of people who would like a socially conservative economically interventionist party are already being served by Reform at this point, who are positioning themselves as anti-austerity (somehow.) And no one else wants this!

alex-mann.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hell, I would go as far as that if Reform hadn't just become Tory+ and had gone full socially conservative economically left wing, they wouldn't be doing as well as they are. Just look at the Workers Party. The audience for Starmer's shit is like Paul Embrey and Eddie Dempsey and that's about it.

azery.bsky.social•1 day ago

so you have this terrible mix that is in a permanent defensive crouch and also has no real vision because its leader is the living definition of empty suit politician who believes in nothing

prophetcassandra.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's wild how he managed to get into the leadership because like yeah, politicians who don't have politics happens, but you're not supposed to put them in charge! He would have been an okay Justice Sec, but instead we put someone with basically no political experience in charge of everything

rosewasnthere.bsky.social•1 day ago

Funnily enough this is like - exactly what I said when people were earnestly pushing for Corbyn to be removed right before the 2019 election and have Starmer installed in his stead
… and okay labour got absolutely crushed in 2019 and Starmer might’ve done better… but he’s still a shit leader

rosewasnthere.bsky.social•1 day ago

(Think everyone liked the idea cause, well yeah he’s a blank slate, empty suit. All anyone knew was “intellectual and (quietly) pro-eu”)

prophetcassandra.bsky.social•1 day ago

The only leader with a similar lack of MP experience before being leader is Ed Miliband but he spend a decade+ as a SPAD in the high level of the party. Keir is a civil servant who doesn't understand anything and now we're living with the consequences.

prophetcassandra.bsky.social•1 day ago

To his credit, it does feel like it's been a lot longer.
Like how being in trapped in a traumatic situation feels like it's stretching on forever and ever

timothystamm101.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is the kind of thing that makes me wonder if anyone in Labor is considering an internal vote of non-confidence.

beltwaykomrade.bsky.social•18 hours ago

centrism,

not even once!

s3rp86.bsky.social•1 day ago

You accrue political capital to spend it not to run after every fucking weekly poll of a couple of racists. Like what the fuck.

fitzy205.bsky.social•1 day ago

Makes me feel better about Democrats honestly, turns out the center-left just sucks everywhere.

ninamega.bsky.social•1 day ago

Doing nothing would've been a vast improvement over what he's actually done

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