Posted: May 08, 2021 8:12 pm
minininja wrote:
Labour now losing councillors up and down the country too, mostly to Tory and Green gains so far. Just seen a clip of Starmer really not happy, promising to learn lessons, win back trust, and provide a vision, but unable to say what that means in policy terms. He's insistent that Labour has changed but also still needs to change more from what it was under Corbyn. Trouble is the main thing Corbyn's Labour actually had going for it was a strong set of popular progressive policies and a plan for community organising. Starmer's refusal to keep any of that leaves him little to build any vision with, and it shows.
This appears to me - albeit viewed from a distance - to be the nub of the matter. Starmer inherited a fractious party barely able to remain united under a banner. The progressives are cemented in with a significant chunk of Labour electorate support, and the right of the party who want more than anything else, including winning elections, is to defeat the left side of the party.
The Conservatives have been wide open for months with historical sleaze, corruption, and Brexit related economic failures, and we once again see the sole opposition party in the UK unable to leverage any of that, and actually instead lose yet more support.
Does anyone know what Starmer's offering the nation? Not-Corbynism isn't enough, and nor is Tory-lite.
They need new leadership because he's not got any vision.