General election: Sir Keir Starmer says Conservatives’ National Service plan will not work
https://news.sky.com/story/general-election-sir-keir-starmer-to-tell-voters-i-will-fight-for-you-in-first-major-campaign-speech-13143804
Posted by topotaul
General election: Sir Keir Starmer says Conservatives’ National Service plan will not work
https://news.sky.com/story/general-election-sir-keir-starmer-to-tell-voters-i-will-fight-for-you-in-first-major-campaign-speech-13143804
Posted by topotaul
10 Comments
Doesn’t matter. They own the narrative now. That’s what they do. They release stuff that gets everyone arguing. Then they look like the party of action. While Labour look like they won’t do anything.
I hate the Tories, but Labour need to do better.
This proves that the Tories throwing out National Service like this has done its job. Starmer makes a pretty decent speech today yet this is the story coming out of it.
/slow handclap.
In other news water is wet, get that manifesto out Keir get on every radio station possible with regional affiliates and bag on about it over and over.
Starmer should have just asked the Tories to provide details of their proposal that weren’t scribbled on the back of a fag packet the day after the election was announced.
Building Boris’s bridge to Ireland had more legs than this future shitshow policy .
It’s okay, it doesn’t have to, because they’re never actually going to do it.
Hot news. In the near future labour will say its a good idea.
Master stroke from the Tories. Everyone talking about something that will never happen, that no one wants, but people will argue vociferously with the imagined people they think hold an opposing opinion, just because.
(18 is too late anyway. Got to get them way before that)
Are the Conservatives trying to commit suicide and finish the job for Starmer? Who the hell is going to vote for National Service?!
The tories have regular meetings with the press. I don’t care what anyone thinks about print media but the right wing ones meet up regularly with Tufton street types (James O Brian mentioned this in a podcast) and they can sit down and decide a narrative. Sky and BBC then for some reason care what the papers say and tend to follow that narrative. The tories have got it stitched up.
Labour, you would have thought would have more practice at countering this shit. I mean corbyn was just a mannequin of shit but you would have thought seamus milne being ex guardian would have known how to deal with it. Starmers labour have hot some of Blairs people in now but they’re just not as experienced
Why doesn’t he just say that it’s wrong and that it’s a terrible policy? By saying ‘it won’t work’ implies that he thinks there’s a right way of doing it, he’s playing straight into the Tories hands here