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Keir Starmer's time is up

Mirror are reporting it is 11,500 words. It gets grimmer.

He has managed to release his vision whilst the entire media are focussing on a war on the left which he did not have to chuck petrol on, days before conference.

What a lad.
 
Now available to read in full (which I haven’t bothered to do yet). My initial analysis is that it’s not very good even on the most narrow of terms. I was hoping to see Starmer steal the best bits of Biden’s infrastructure plan and commit to a limited return of social democracy recognising its inevitability in the post covid world. Doesn’t appear he’s even managed to get that far. Very hard to understand what this approach is designed to do or to appeal to (again on their terms and not ‘ours’):

 
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It's quite a lot of nothing. Kids deserve an education, although one focussed on future employability not wellbeing or emotional intelligence or anything like that. Hospitals are good, but the tories who are fucking them to death aren't bad. Yawn.
 
SpookyFrank said:
It's quite a lot of nothing. Kids deserve an education, although one focussed on future employability not wellbeing or emotional intelligence or anything like that. Hospitals are good, but the tories who are fucking them to death aren't bad. Yawn.
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I don't think you're actually supposed to read it. It's dwarf bread isn't it.

The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of dozens of things you'd rather eat.
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ska invita said:
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Yeah, I don't think I need to read any more to know that it's reheated Blairism. Reheated after twenty years in the fridge, where not only has it gone more than a bit 'off', but like prawn cocktail has fallen considerably out of fashion.

I'm not very invested in the Labour Party but even I feel it's a bit of a shame that Starmer hasn't even made the concessions to the left that Biden has decided are strategically necessary to keep young voters on board. I think that failure dooms us to more Tory governments - there's little appeal in the centre ground in times like these.
 
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With this leadership change Starmer's basically just making a noose for his own neck isn't he? He's making it easier for the right to kick him out without any risk of a left candidate fucking up the process of anointing his successor.

I genuinely think he's so dim that this won't have occurred to him.
 
I liked the article's phrasing: "decisive course .... values of hard work, contributing to society ... "

and who could object to the values of hard work and contributing to society? Wasters all, obviously.

"Corbyn's radical spending promises"

not taking essential resources into public ownership but just spending promises.

No bias there :thumbs:
 
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