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?
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.
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!
This does also require the press to do the reporting but their remit seems to be only the bad bits.
Most of the British press is openly anti Labour. Expecting anything else is just delusional.
I'm sure Laura fucken Kuenssberg will treat Labour in a fair and balanced manner /s
To be honest, yes I do. It's been less than a year and already Labour has 'failed'. At least give them time. I'm not saying they're going to fix everything, but they'll be a damn sight better than the Tories.
Oh for sure, at least I feel like this lot are getting to make things better for most people.
My worry is that if they're not good enough ukip will sneak their way in.
He is a shit lib and has done nothing for the working class. He's just another Biden, precisely what the plutonomy requires.
Corbyn had more left-wing positions, but he lost two elections, so I think Starmer realised that a more centrist position would give Labour a better chance of becoming the government.
I guess I'm just saying that it could be worse. If Sunak had won the 2024 election then the country would probably have experienced more managed decline.
He's just paving the way for an even more rabid right wing government at the next general election.
Daily Mail is a rag what else is new? If Starmer had any good economic policies (he is the Prime Minister, not a candidate), the public would like him regardless of what right wing "press" says.
Starmer and the rest of Labour besides a few good eggs deserve no respect.
Obviously this doesn't mean the press don't have a distorted way of presenting Labour relative to how they presented the Tory govs failings.
I'd rather the British public lose all hope in a future with any of the current political offerings than hold out hope for a neoliberal Labour party that are out of their depth. The sooner the farce and sham bourgeois democracy is realised for what it is by the masses the better. No more managed decline.