Why not give Sir New Prime Minister a break? | David Mitchell
Why not give Sir New Prime Minister a break? | David Mitchell
‘Sir Queue Jumper’ for Sir Keir Starmer? Even Liz Truss would deserve better puns than this
Do you think the press is too critical of Keir Starmer?
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- The press have it in for Labour
- How were the Tories getting on?
- Labour can't solve our economic problems without big upheaval. Are unwilling to accept that, even though public voted for change.
- Labour are communicating their plan to the public really badly. All we hear is cut, cut, cut but nothing about what those cuts will enable them to do. There no positive narrative.
This does also require the press to do the reporting but their remit seems to be only the bad bits.
I'm disappointed in the lack of 'oven-ready' plans from them. They had a stable shadow cabinet for a good amount of time and I was confident they were going to sweep in and be quite dynamic, and I feel like I've yet to see that.
The fact that one of their first major announcements was essentially 'We're taking heating money away from old people' might have been the stupidest thing they could have done.
Anyone with common sense knows that it's means tested now, and those that need it should be able to get it, but, Christ, they screwed it up. Even if they'd waited until the spring, and gave guides on how to apply, they would have looked more compassionate, and not so clueless.
"They screwed it up". They don't have a friendly and receptive media they can call on to spin their message.
Hey that's not true at all, the whole world has seen those atrocious AI ads about how they're putting more cops on the street!