Keir Starmer's time is up
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Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Starmer writes in The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com
Everywhere things are broken. Only by sweeping away the failed Tory approach can we rebuild our country | Keir Starmer
The heart of Labour’s approach is to get Britain thinking big again, which requires reform, writes Keir Starmer
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
How does all this growth and wealth stuff tie with environmental concerns?
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Well it aligns with hating "tree huggers"
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
And a reminder to be nice to Tory voters.
www.theguardian.com
Labour byelection activists warned: ‘Show respect to Tory voters or go home’
The party has warned its campaigners about their attitude to Conservative voters in true blue constituencies
teqniq
DisMembered
It doesn't.
Starmer saysStarmer writes in The Guardian.
Everywhere things are broken. Only by sweeping away the failed Tory approach can we rebuild our country | Keir Starmer
The heart of Labour’s approach is to get Britain thinking big again, which requires reform, writes Keir Starmer
Then fifty words later
Er…
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Have I gone back in time
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
"The heart of Labour’s approach is to get Britain thinking big again,"
That's nailed it - we've all been thinking too small
That would work a lot better as a pitch if everything about him as an individual and his approach didn't scream 'think depressingly, miserably small - no smaller than that'.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Surely Star Trek is forward in time.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
And a reminder to be nice to Tory voters.
Labour byelection activists warned: ‘Show respect to Tory voters or go home’
The party has warned its campaigners about their attitude to Conservative voters in true blue constituencies
But Labour voters can go fuck themselves.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Star Trek was actually made in the 60s, not the future. It is a work of fiction.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
I know it might seem that way, because of the time vortex, but get real.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Love to know how education reforms are going to sort out the fact that half the schools are physically falling down. You can't reform asbestos.
mojo pixy
...שלא נמצא בשמאל
(I wanted to post something about Starmer’s mean-spirited, small-minded, low-expectations 'offer' that we're all expected to vote for, but even thinking about it makes me feel horrible so best left alone really. Apathy feels less grim than desperation)
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Its not even Asbestos, its the shitty cardboard walls built by PFI contracts under Blair and Browns "we can't spend money so lets get it off the books and somehow spend more money" brainwave.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
He means shed loads more of PPI to enrich the asset mgt corps; ‘97 all over again
teqniq
DisMembered
This is not actually what I want to hear at all:
www.theguardian.com
E2a I've just latterly noticed the article is from last year but he's still banging on about it now to the exclusion of all else.
Keir Starmer: Labour will fight next election on economic growth
Opposition leader to say ‘making the country and its people better off’ is main priority for party
E2a I've just latterly noticed the article is from last year but he's still banging on about it now to the exclusion of all else.
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
This is what I want to hear
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Empty vessels make the loudest noiseThis is not actually what I want to hear at all:
Keir Starmer: Labour will fight next election on economic growth
Opposition leader to say ‘making the country and its people better off’ is main priority for party
E2a I've just latterly noticed the article is from last year but he's still banging on about it now to the exclusion of all else.
Starmer's strategy of not scaring the horses is good for disrupting the Tory vote and it consolidates his wing/faction so it's locked in. I don't think it's worth bemoaning this reality but I think it is worth looking at the consequences of a long term consciously no-to-hope authoritarian Labour government. I think we're going to be looking at the return of the far right as a counter - historically that's what happened in Europe with similar governments and to an extent here under New Labour. The culture war stuff the Tories are trying to tap into now is still pretty marginal and it won't work for them at the next election, but I'm thinking about what it will look like in 5 years time. I think in the current climate there is also an opportunity for a left of Labour politics that there wasn't 20 years ago, but I really don't have much faith that anyone will get it together.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
If Labour are going to win the next election they are going to have to persuade a lot of people especially working class voters who voted Tory last time to vote Labout this time around.And a reminder to be nice to Tory voters.
Labour byelection activists warned: ‘Show respect to Tory voters or go home’
The party has warned its campaigners about their attitude to Conservative voters in true blue constituencies
"You're all class traitors, we hate you and hope you burn in hell" is not going to win many over tbh.
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
It's (more) posturing bollocks. He's making snide implications about the dedication and common sense of people who have been doorknocking for Labour for years for the sake of a cheap headline aimed at the sort of dipshit who he reckons will turn their vote if he says enough nasty public comments about lefties. As though grassroots Labour activists were previously all engaged in bricking known tories' windows ffs.
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