In 2021 Charlie Falconer visited Starmer and asked : “Are you left? Are you right? Are you middle? Why should we be in power?” No answers seemed to be forthcoming. A reminder that a team good at winning elections might not be good at governing. - ThreadSky

fascinatorfun.bsky.social • 17 days ago

In 2021 Charlie Falconer visited Starmer and asked : “Are you left? Are you right? Are you middle? Why should we be in power?” No answers seemed to be forthcoming.

A reminder that a team good at winning elections might not be good at governing.

Reposted from Caroline Lucas

“In power, Labour’s agenda has been stripped back to an empty obsession with growth & an imitation of Reform UK. The public isn’t falling for it”.
Spot on @johnharris1969.bsky.social People deserve better than a government with no conviction, no hope & no vision

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hoojo.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yes.Labour shifted to accommodate Brexit & greater alliance with America, but as America loses control of its foreign policy- ie Russia calls the shots in Ukraine, Israel in the middle east. & Americas domestic glue& economy disintegrates, Starmers,Labour is left politically stranded

kenspearpoint.bsky.social•16 days ago

Very sad to say, but (with the exception of a notable few) I think the parliamentary Labour Party have lost any identity they had in terms of being representatives of working people.

They are professional career politicians continuing the (mostly) Tory tradition.

magss.bsky.social•17 days ago

I am so disappointed by Labour’s choice of rhetoric. And as for governance, I can’t see much.

nickybshaw.bsky.social•16 days ago

Honestly, watch and wait. It may not be quite what you think. Remember who still owns the media and who has just now moved into WH.
#WatchWhatTheyDo
Not
#WhatTheySay

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•16 days ago

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officialstehee.bsky.social•16 days ago

The Nation voted for Change. Starmer delivered a change in Liars.

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•17 days ago

“Having cunningly manoeuvred Labour to victory, Starmer’s advisers have apparently failed to supply him with a coherent governing script

…the resulting vacuum is now being filled by manic, feckless lurches into places that no centre-left government ought to go.”

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•17 days ago

“Last week, Labour launched online adverts seemingly purposely created to look like Reform UK propaganda, complete with such slogans as “Labour hits 5-year high in migrant removals” – the kind of flimsy posturing that surely makes it look like Nigel Farage is dictating the political weather”

soph0517.bsky.social•17 days ago

Really pisses me off. Nobody has ever won advancement of human rights by pandering to majority. And Labour is pandering here. Pandering to the same people who believed those that brought us Brexit, who piss on the streets of London, who cheer Musk's Nazi salute. It will never be enough 4 them

johntonks.bsky.social•17 days ago

Labour now has the same level of obsession with migrants as the Tories appeasing the RW. Starmer is a disgrace and now proven beyond question not to be a leader.

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•17 days ago

Thus “encourages even more people to support him (Farage).”

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•17 days ago

“The same applies to an imminent run of grim campaigning videos that will focus on deported immigrants, following them “from detention in early morning raids to transfer from bleak immigration removal centres to waiting planes and … footage aboard flights out of the country”.

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•17 days ago

Needless to say Yvette Cooper would not want to miss a Patel/Braverman-like photo shoot appearing in the early morning raid photos to show how tough they are on people infinitely worse off than them with all their power

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•16 days ago

No. I don’t think it is wrong to remove those who have been refused asylum or a visa legitimately.

Doesn’t mean that it is OK to turn it into a performative cruelty Panto. That isn’t strength. That is weakness.

rholmes.bsky.social•16 days ago

Perhaps the election victory occurred despite not because of their campaign team and vaunted strategist.

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