Starmer denies Labour will lurch to the Left if party wins election
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/26/starmer-denies-labour-will-lurch-to-left-election/
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Starmer denies Labour will lurch to the Left if party wins election
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/26/starmer-denies-labour-will-lurch-to-left-election/
Posted by 1DarkStarryNight
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All hail the status quo. We are doing so well as a country at the moment and mustn’t rock the boat.
I hope he doesn’t, but he wouldn’t exactly go “yeah we’re just pretending to be centrists to get into power” would he?
C’mon Keir, come out of your Corbynite closet. Give me some BROADBAND.
Oh Jeremy Cooooorbyn.
Boring centrism is wayyy to the left of where torygraph is if we’re thinking in terms of a spectrum which is a dumb representation of politics
Papers shouldn’t be able to make shit up so easily
So he’s admitting he is a conservative now.
Option one. Vote Tory and it stays the same.
Option two. Vote Labour and they will act the same as the Torys.
Option thee. Vote for another and waste your vote resulting in everything staying the same.
How many seats is that Bin face fella standing in. Can we clone him.
The constant lies and broken promises from Starmer make clear he will keep moving to the right. Not great when the “changed Labour Party” model themselves on pre-boris tories.
No chance of that – Starmer understands the rules of the game; as PM he’ll be like Philip Green in ‘Casino’ – he’ll sit in a big office, with a fancy job title, and get all the perks and privileges of high office, but he’ll be merely a frontman, a glorified puppet, and the actual power will continue to be held be the same shit corporate gangsters and criminals who’ve been running the country into the ground for the past 45 years.
They’ll tell him what to do, what to say, and what to think; he’ll play along, possibly even believe on some level that he is actually in charge and they simply advising him, but if he gives so much as a hint that he’ll step out of line, the oligarchy owned media will turn the full force of their firepower on him and he’ll be out of his (symbolic) job within a matter of weeks.
I don’t doubt that there are millions of people looking for an excuse to hold their nose and vote Tory or Reform in the voting booth rather than vote for Starmer.
He has to hold onto the centre ground and move the country to the left while in power
“We have campaigned as changed Labour and we will govern as changed Labour,”
He actually said that. He has no shame. Where does this Blair tribute act end? Presumably with a dodgy dossier justifying war in Iran.
Note that Welsh Labour administration dogmatically imposed blanket 20mph speed limits in former 30mph zones whether warranted or not. The same happened in Wirral a week after the last local elections.
Labour promises economic prudence but that won’t stop their social engineering experiments. Over the next decade we’ll lose many freedoms under their governance.
Two things. Labour are uninspiring shits. The Jellygraph is Britain’s worst newspaper.
So who are the people on the left supposed to vote for? Is it just decided that the UK should not have a left?
If by ‘lurch to the left’ they mean increase CGT to match income tax, toughening up inheritance tax loopholes, and actually funding public services then I suspect he will. He’ll have to as the Tories have made such a mess.
Ah very convenient for the Tories when they come back. They won’t have as far to drag when they start dragging us to the right again.
Give it 25 years and we’ll be using the Bellamy salute like America used to
We don’t want lurches, we want slow gentle leftward pressure.
Anyone paying attention won’t be remotely surprised by this.
I still remember his most ardent supporters trying to tell me that he was playing a game of ‘5D chess’ and that once in government he’d be a lot more radical.
Those people are about to look very very stupid.
The lefties might remove him if they have the numbers in Parliament. I am impressed with Starmer he has done his duty by expelling the antisemites and cranks, but they could make a come back.
I hope he does. Policies considered ‘left’ are what’s needed to rebuild after the Tories destroyed so much.
Honestly with the way Starmer has pushed Labour I cannot in good conscience vote for them. I’ve already voted due to having a mail ballot and I went for Liberal Democrats.
Unfortunately this is the one pledge I think he’ll stick to.
1 party down, 1 party to go. sometime soon we might live in a proper democracy
Kier starmer is such a weird person. He looks like a headteacher out of his depth. Why did his parents name him after the first Labour MP. Why did he join a CIA group during the time of corbyn
Will the tory leader in 2029 promise that his party wont lurch to the right if elected, as it did after the 2015 elections?
In fairness, even as someone who is currently relatively left wing, I don’t want a lurch to the left – it feels like that’d just cause a Liz Truss scenario. A steady, planned shift left is what I’d like to see.
I’d say it’s ironic that the Starmer clique is using the slogan “change” in an election were they’ve made it extremely clear they will aggressively resist any real efforts to change Britain’s political or economic situation, but I learned a long time ago there’s no irony with these people, just practice.