I’m not a Labour Party member, but desperately want rid of this Tory government as quickly as possible. We need radical economic and political change, but we have got a timid Labour Party that just wants to get over the line.
I will vote for the best candidate to beat the Tory- Lib Dem here in South Cotswolds I think- but I am already disappointed in the next government. They should have picked Lisa Nandy
Emma: you have put into words, here, what Starmer’s advisers should be telling him. Question: are they? And if they are not telling him, is their advice worth having?
I’m not a member of Labour so my views are easily discounted. But the UK desperately needs a competent AND progressive government - it cannot afford to settle for a competent Tory lite….
They are so terrified of what happened to Shorten in Australia in 2019 (allowing an unpopular divided Govt led by someone who took the job months before the election after an intra-party coup to turn the election into a referendum on Labor’s plans on negative gearing and franking credits) that they’re ignoring the reason that Morrison has taken over from Turnbull and that was Labor eviscerating the previously popular Turnbull because he stood for nothing ‘What’s the point of Malcolm Turnbull’ was the line that did him in
They’re in real danger now of falling prey to a ‘What’s the point of Keir Starmer’ attack
They should never have front loaded the policy with the price tag, which is intangible for most people. I’m not yet sure whether this ditching of the policy is a foretaste of an agonising timidity we’ll see in government, or just another example of their clearing the barnacles (£28bn price tag) off the boat ahead of the election. It could be the latter and actually in government they’ll be bolder than we assume. Time will tell.
I’m not a Labour Party member, but desperately want rid of this Tory government as quickly as possible. We need radical economic and political change, but we have got a timid Labour Party that just wants to get over the line.
I will vote for the best candidate to beat the Tory- Lib Dem here in South Cotswolds I think- but I am already disappointed in the next government. They should have picked Lisa Nandy
Emma: you have put into words, here, what Starmer’s advisers should be telling him. Question: are they? And if they are not telling him, is their advice worth having?
I’m not a member of Labour so my views are easily discounted. But the UK desperately needs a competent AND progressive government - it cannot afford to settle for a competent Tory lite….
They are so terrified of what happened to Shorten in Australia in 2019 (allowing an unpopular divided Govt led by someone who took the job months before the election after an intra-party coup to turn the election into a referendum on Labor’s plans on negative gearing and franking credits) that they’re ignoring the reason that Morrison has taken over from Turnbull and that was Labor eviscerating the previously popular Turnbull because he stood for nothing ‘What’s the point of Malcolm Turnbull’ was the line that did him in
They’re in real danger now of falling prey to a ‘What’s the point of Keir Starmer’ attack
They should never have front loaded the policy with the price tag, which is intangible for most people. I’m not yet sure whether this ditching of the policy is a foretaste of an agonising timidity we’ll see in government, or just another example of their clearing the barnacles (£28bn price tag) off the boat ahead of the election. It could be the latter and actually in government they’ll be bolder than we assume. Time will tell.