“He needs a break.” Long read on Starmer’s shaky start - what went wrong and what he’s doing to try to fix it, with frank insights from ministers, allies etc. with @pickardje.bsky.social and Jonny Vincent
https://on.ft.com/4iTFlKz
https://on.ft.com/4iTFlKz
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It's all there is, and all there will be.
It's not as appealing to me as 2019's, but it's good enough to put us back on the right path and help roll back Thatcher's destruction.
Much of Lab's objectives will still be supported, but we may well get a deal involving PR & EU, though my guess is it'll be one or the other, not both.
They're incredibly right wing.
As to the likes of Blackrock the choice is between reneging on tax increases & failing to invest or using private money. It's not my favoured choice but I accept it nonetheless.
The Party's social policies are generally more liberal than the Tories but not as lib as the Grns or LDs. However, there are members like me with lib views.
Just read any Lab manifesto on criminal justice & you'll see what I mean.
this is the most anti-lgbt+ government since thatcher.
they just introduced the first anti-lgbt+ legislation since section 28.
keir starmer is infamously anti-Black.
im not being hyperbolic.
it’s full of anti-lgbt+ bigotries and wishy-washy thatcherism.
And all of the things he has done or promised so far (Anti-Trans policies, Means testing WFA, picking on Benefit Claimants etc) are not in the manifesto at all
https://youtu.be/zcSlcNfThUA?feature=shared
He's weak, feckless, and the humble remains of a once proud government.
He can’t unravel 14 years of Tory thievery , corruption and scandal in that time.
All this negativity towards him is paving the way for our own Trump debacle…Farage
5 more years of guaranteed social & economic decline was the alternative with no hope for public services.
No matter what Labour does or doesn't do, the media will crucify them. C'est la vie.
That he chooses to let Streeting persecute trans people is not a footnote. It’s an alarm bell.
To become near-universally unpopular in such a short period of time is some accomplishment though.
I'm thankful for small mercies and I'm a glass half-full kind of man. I don't think it'd be better under Sunak, which was the likely alternative, and I'm tired of Tory chaos for a lifetime.
Embarrassing stuff.
Have you ever thought that we might deserve more than half a glass for a change and maybe to ask for such?
No, didn't think so.
However, even the most Labour friendly of outlets would struggle to put a positive spin on some of these PR clusterfucks.
It's also true of the other policies they've been criticised for. I'm sure the Tories wld get away with any of those choices, which is what galls me most. C'est la vie, I guess.
But he can give messaging that gives people confidence he will, and not continue the dangerous rhetoric targeted at marginalised groups.
He could have stopped Streeting banning PBs.
He could have discredited Cass.
He could have stopped going after disabled people.
He chose not to.
I don’t even know what this Labour government’s flagship policies are.
There’s “being slow to unravel” and there’s “making it even worse”. They are not the same sort of thing.
It didn't work for Macron and it didn't work for Biden
Because unlike Starmer, Attlee wasn’t a morally bankrupt coward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attlee_ministry?wprov=sfti1
my rage, and that is what it is, at labour has nothing to do with the tories and everything to do with policies labour themselves have introduced.
the tories didn’t destroy my healthcare and replace it with christian conversion practices — labour did.
the tories would never be dumb enough to sell our country to blackrock.
i don’t think ppl like you understand just how pissed off ppl are with labour’s bullshit.
if we’re gonna have a deeply rw government id rather have one that isn’t pretending to be liberal.
i want labour dead and buried.
The thing is, the point you make doesn’t address the problem people have.
Constant assault by Tory media
- Slash the House of Lords.
- Nationalize water companies.
His current approach is cringey. Why is he so spineless?
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/labour-rules-out-nationalising-water-firms-to-tackle-pollution-qqw7rbhvx
Interesting framing.,,the herd mentality of the right wing media.
What a shame.
14 years of absolute shite and media happy to be complicit.
Labour authenticity will ultimately shine through.
£1bn set aside for Horizon victims.
£22bn black hole
Prisons in crisis
NHS in crisis
Rail nationalisation begins…
Public sector pay settled
Train drivers…worker rights.
Still, you stay angry…
Abandons the poor.
Abandons Waspi women.
Increases tuition fees.
Cosies up to Blackrock.
Abandons refugees looking for safety.
Worst of all - abandons murdered and mutilated kids in Gaza.
Starmer is a moral vacuum and Labour is just seeding the ground for more neolib disaster.
Abandons…as for the rest…what infantile assertions.
Processing asylum claims rather than leaving them rot on the Bibby Stockholm. You’d prefer they rot!? Well that’s an opinion I guess.
the media are not treating him badly. they are covering for him.
Without Leveson2 Labour have been subjected to a 24-7 Farage feting Bannon playbook Musk amplified insurrection campaign that has handed RefCon total control of the narrative
We probably need to go and save you as for 1000 years ago.
its unfortunate those footsteps lead to the 9th circle of hell
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/26/the-guardian-view-on-freebies-and-lobbyists-an-own-goal-that-labour-should-have-avoided
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he’s an incompetent 1990s era thatcherite and bigot.
he needs binning.
we need a 21st century pm who understands the contemporary political landscape. in other words: not a middle-manager surrounded by blair era advisors.
History will remember.
The issue has been communications and adjusting to being in government after so long out of power.
They'll be fine
A Johnson led Reform govt in 2029 is my guess! 😟