Posted: Apr 04, 2020 7:47 pm
ronmcd wrote:GrahamH wrote:Starmer seems competent but unspiring.
Now the Tories have moved left and found the magic money tree where does Labour go?
Fiscal prudence? The sober counter to bouncy boris?
The money will soon be redirected to the usual recipients, don't assume for a second that anything has changed permanently, in terms of a redrawing of the economy or a rediscovery of post war universalism.
I find it fascinating to try and work out what the Tories will do. Not only will they have to (by definition, in order to be Tories) direct the money to "the usual recipients", but there will be far less money to direct. Which means that what's left for everyone else will have to be even less - a LOT less - than it was under the last decade of austerity.
The one thing they have going for them is that the root of the current crisis was a problem not of their making. The question is going to be how long they can go on blaming it for the future decisions to safeguard the rich and fuck everyone else that will be of their making. Obviously they'll have the awesome power of the British media's propaganda, and the awesome stupidity of the electorate, to help in that, so who knows?
I voted for Starmer, partly because of the air of competence and capability that you mention. But I wouldn't want to be him right now.