If he does that, then my ship will tack left. How can he be so blind? However, Financial Times isn't always accurate, so will wait a while. But I have given Starmer enough leeway already. For now, a warning across the bows will be going from me to my Labour MP.
This will be nothing to the wipeout coming to Labour in the Scottish Parliament elections next year - then it's a race to be independent before 29 when England goes fully RW.
Sort the underlying problems out by funding public services, looking to redistribute wealth via progressive tax. Do not victimise the people that the populists look to scapegoat. It’s grim, McSweeney sacrificing the centre & centre left, Starmer a stooge.
They dont know how to do anything else. The Labour right are unable to listen to the masses. They despise them.
They are in thrall to corporate power, establishment power and the power that resides in Washington.
There seems, in UK politics, to be a far greater willingness to adjust ‘speed’ (eg: ‘we need to go further and faster’, or, conversely, ‘the lesson is that we went too far too fast’); than to think about whether we are heading in the right, or the best, direction.
Starmer's weak team forget 2 things:
1.UK is 2nd most unequal society in Europe.
2. UK media BBC & its press always praises the Far Right & silences Brexit truth. Farage is on a crusade. Starmer McSweeny are weak & gutless at changing UK high regional inequality away from M25 magic money circle
Could be said about someone catching a train in the wrong direction, as Labour under Starmer definitely appears - ‘going faster’ only aggravates the dysfunction evident.
Increasingly likely that we will end up with 3 paleoconservative parties slugging it out for the knuckledragger vote. Leaves room for the Libdems to emerge.
Also what morons are these: Farage will respond to the St George’s day reception with a photo op in a pub that will make Starmer look weird and out of touch
Good observation. Also interest in superlatives - first, biggest, world-beating etc. Always searching for the panacea when steady, competent progress in many minutiae would probably be more successful.
Agree but 'bear with us we're working on it' doesn't cut thro. And for all the list of achievements so far the voices shouting 'But you haven't sorted 'X' is always louder
But they needn't worry for 4 years. Just need to show progress. I can't see how numerous failed panaceas helps their cause. Panaceas and three word slogans don't attract my vote.
Will largely depend on how Reform manages to deliver for the councils they have won with Trumpian promises and how local victories/failures are reported - hare v tortoise. Few really actually like the tortoise
It's the same in industry. "AI will save the day". But if they upgraded the network and everyone's PC they'd probably have a far bigger productivity boost! Or invest to replace paper processes with online workflow.
Or he could give people what they voted for, which was anything but Tory policies.
People didn't vote for Labour, they voted against the tories!
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social we don't want Tory policies. Keep going like this and Nigel Farage will be our next PM!
Easily, Lisa Nandy failed to reign in right wing BBC's love in with Farage, never challenged BBC appalling Brexit coverage or X's libellous attacks saying Labour ppl are 'P' word ...
Maurice Glasman is an idiot masquerading as an intellectual and man of the people. His ego has been hugely inflated by the attention he’s been getting from Trump and sundry other rightwing arseholes. He has no coherent philosophy at all. Blue Labour is a contradiction in terms.
Maybe Labour voters want less poverty, more access to beyond minimum wage jobs, to be able to pay their heating bills, not have their disabled relatives benefits slashed and better access to healthcare and a sense of hope.
That's not what Labour is selling right now.
Will he now hold a St David’s Day and St Andrew’s Day celebration at No.10? If not what more proof do you need. For UK read England 🏴
It’s time ⬇️
The Republican and Democrat parties basically flipped who they represented quite a few decades ago. Same is happening with Labour. They're led by pollsters, who are being directed by newspapers, owned by vested interests, who do not pay UK taxes & align with malign authoritarians. No leadership!!!
Labour have been screaming
"What we need is a far right government"
non stop.
And then they act surprised when people vote for the far right.
Labour left the centre behind long ago and are now actively going for human rights.
The strategy to oppose the far right, is to oppose it. Not be it.
Starmer's team are too late. The Reform wave is exponential. They failed their Northern voters but pleased their London City masters. They failed on their media handing & their message. Social Democracy has been diluted so much that the man in the Northern sees Lab as worst than Tory 14 yrs.
Has he not observed - and learned the lessons - of the fiasco of such strategies viz the Front/Rassemblement National in France?!? Next thing maybe someone will somehow merge the Labour and Tories (like Macron did) and install the fascists as the only meaningful opposition??? 🤦🏼♀️
And yet the number of councillors gained by Reform almost exactly matches the number lost by the Tories and the number lost by Labour is closely matched by gains for the Greens and Lib Dems. I know that’s a simplification but even so…….
The US and the UK seem to have a competition of who can learn the least from each other. The US saw Brexit and was like we can do it worse with a trade war. Labout saw democrats move to the right and they're like we want to lose elections too.
He’s literally doing what Dems in the US did and look how that worked out, are they this stupid that they’re actually going to continue on the blue Labour path and get us reform in 4 years?
Looking at this from the US, the Dems at least have the (very poor) excuse of people not having other real options...but the Greens and LibDems are right there. It doesn't take a lot of knowledge to figure out it'll go even worse for Labour than it did for the Dems.
Lab won impressive power from Tories then blew the ******* doors off. They ignored their working class voters in most unequal UK. They ignored a viscious right wing media & took money from low income northerners to please city boys. No social democratic imagination whatsoever,a weak and gutless team
This used to be the"Labour" party. You know Labour, those who labour, the working man? Doing things for ordinary people. Values based on what's good for the majority. Not propping the far right, not stroking the City, but doing things to help ordinary people prosper. Perhaps we should start again..
Yeah, people do tend to find bragging about potholes a bit empty when you're legislating a minority out of public life, and purposefully impoverishing disabled people and pensioners. What you're doing here is simply saying the law should be used to silence their critics.
It doesn't matter how many times Starmerbots regurgitate this lie, Labour don't have a comms problem. People simply care more about cruel, hateful policies than small tweaks.
The activists doing the door knocking certainly seem to think the PIP and WFP cuts are the biggest driver of vote losses, but I'm sure they don't know as much as some smug white dude on the internet.
Anyone that thinks that isn't voting labour no matter what they do. It's fucking stupid to chase people that will still call starmer a commie because the papers tell them to.
I work with people who'd turn any subject into a rant about migrants coming across the channel on small boats, they absolutely hate the Tories because they failed to deal with it and I asked them if they'd vote labour at the next election if they dealt with it and to a man they said yes
The 'Labour Party' is now at the point that required the founding of a political party to represent working-class people, and was named the 'Labour Party'.
Too many in Lab have colluded in massive error of hitting working class up North while pleasing London City boys. Worse McSweeny failed to even message the improvements in low pay,teachers pay etc. There's no ******* message on any progress for poor Northern man on street who says Lab are justTories
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They are in thrall to corporate power, establishment power and the power that resides in Washington.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/30/should-the-left-be-optimistic-about-our-future-outside-the-eu
The populists by implementing their agenda?
Quote from The Shot article.
1.UK is 2nd most unequal society in Europe.
2. UK media BBC & its press always praises the Far Right & silences Brexit truth. Farage is on a crusade. Starmer McSweeny are weak & gutless at changing UK high regional inequality away from M25 magic money circle
Voters are as unlikely to find satisfaction in the governance of the successors as in that of Labour.
What will they expect towards the end of the 2030s?
People didn't vote for Labour, they voted against the tories!
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social we don't want Tory policies. Keep going like this and Nigel Farage will be our next PM!
And we will all suffer as a result.
Not sure how that flies in the UK voluntary voting and first past the post system.
Pretty sure they didn’t want this
That's not what Labour is selling right now.
https://join.greenparty.org.uk/
Which is a thin excuse to do fascism while claiming to be not like those fascists.
This unpopulism needs to die.
It’s time ⬇️
"What we need is a far right government"
non stop.
And then they act surprised when people vote for the far right.
Labour left the centre behind long ago and are now actively going for human rights.
The strategy to oppose the far right, is to oppose it. Not be it.
The red leader always wears a blue suit
I wonder why no one noticed
Needs media and social media regulation or they could fix everything and still be doomed.
Look at the polls look at the election results. The majority doesn’t think Labour are going far enough. 🤮
You think we’re losing because social democrats are too successful?
@britishvoter.bsky.social
People are not stereotypes. Our bubbles are not representative.
Blue Tories = Red Tories
Any comments from the branch office in Scotland
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Just *some* people in that focus group though
McSweeney has to go. Absolute eejits!