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Keir Starmer's time is up

Keir Starmer is hated in this thread, but doing quite well in the polls. He is ahead of Boris Johnson. Just thought I would point this out for balance!!

Would like to know how much of that is down to the right wing press not pushing out headlines every couple of days that he's an insanely communist Red Keir or a declared anti-semite (or now islamophobe).
 
Keir Starmer is hated in this thread, but doing quite well in the polls. He is ahead of Boris Johnson. Just thought I would point this out for balance!!
you're looking for the 'we stan keir starmer' thread, which would be over there >>>> except no-one's got round to starting it yet.
 
Meanwhile it's a Momentum landslide in the Young Labour National Committee elections - sweeping nearly all the seats including the chair.

Not convinced it'll mean much but it will annoy all the worst people so that's something anyway
They will shelve the committee.
 
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Just thought I would point this out for balance!!
Not bad news for Kieth, this - whilst the people polled clearly have vastly different opinions as to the incumbent's fitness for office, to say nothing of the divisive Corbyn years, we see that Labour has finally found its great unifier. As the sun rises over a troubled country, the labourer shakes hands with the landowner, the cat marries the dog and lives blissfully thereafter, the country is asked about the Labour leader and responds in a single voice: "who?"
 
Not bad news for Kieth, this - whilst the people polled clearly have vastly different opinions as to the incumbent's fitness for office, to say nothing of the divisive Corbyn years, we see that Labour has finally found its great unifier. As the sun rises over a troubled country, the labourer shakes hands with the landowner, the cat marries the dog and lives blissfully thereafter, the country is asked about the Labour leader and responds in a single voice: "who?"
Mind you, some can only manage a 'meow' or a 'woof'.
 
Tomorrow Radio 4, Desert Island Discs. The soundtrack of Keith Starmer's life.

Can't think of anything more depressing right now.
I came away with a generally favourable impression...ok, most of the music I’d not choose, but could vote for him

(I live overseas and I’m not sure I’ve heard his voice before)
 
The Gemma Bolton complaint (and coverage) is daft - and has been called out as such by some of the JLM people (JLM and LAAS have no loved lost)
 

Taken before Tuesday's reinstatement

In a joint statement, the councillors said Labour had “for a brief time” offered hope to millions of people that it would “fundamentally challenge the capitalist system that is destroying our planet”.

They added: “Today under Starmer, it is offering a return to ‘business as usual’.....

They said it was now “clear that socialists have no credible strategy to regain control of the party, … Under this ‘New Leadership’, Labour has failed to oppose the ‘spycops’ bill, which threatens human rights, especially those of trade unionists and left-wing activists. Under this ‘New Leadership’, Labour has failed to provide effective opposition to the government in the pandemic, minimising trade unions’ concerns about the unsafe reopening of schools and universities.
 
Time should definitely be up ... seven months into his leadership the LP are probably now more likely to split than at any time since the SDP in the early 80s.
 

Taken before Tuesday's reinstatement

In a joint statement, the councillors said Labour had “for a brief time” offered hope to millions of people that it would “fundamentally challenge the capitalist system that is destroying our planet”.

They added: “Today under Starmer, it is offering a return to ‘business as usual’.....

They said it was now “clear that socialists have no credible strategy to regain control of the party, … Under this ‘New Leadership’, Labour has failed to oppose the ‘spycops’ bill, which threatens human rights, especially those of trade unionists and left-wing activists. Under this ‘New Leadership’, Labour has failed to provide effective opposition to the government in the pandemic, minimising trade unions’ concerns about the unsafe reopening of schools and universities.
their idea of labour fundamentally challenging the capitalist system seems rather different from my understanding of fundamentally challenging the capitalist system. how they must yearn for the halcyon days of 'red' jim callaghan
 
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