Defiant Starmer declares he wants 10 years as UK PM
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-keir-starmer-pm-second-term-10-years-interview/
Posted by No_Breadfruit_4901
Defiant Starmer declares he wants 10 years as UK PM
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-keir-starmer-pm-second-term-10-years-interview/
Posted by No_Breadfruit_4901
27 Comments
I want to win the lottery tonight and spend tomorrow bonking Karen Gillan.
At the moment I might have more chance than that fud.
It’s still early in his premiership and he could turn things around. Worth remembering that Mrs Thatcher was unpopular for the first three years of her premiership, but she turned it around and won three elections. He is going to need to get more than 33% of the vote next time to really have a convincing win in the minds of the public.
Starmer says Labour needs 10 years to put Britain back on track. But given everything that has come his way, is he personally committed to serving out a full two terms as prime minister? “Yes. We want a decade of national renewal. I always said this will take time,” he replied. “We will see material change in the first term of a Labour government but we are talking about a decade of national renewal and I intend to lead from the front.”
In case anyone wants to read the quote behind the headline.
Not really up to him is it. That said I dont want Tories or Reform so will see what happens in the next 4 years
As long as the economy picks up in his last 2 years and we start showing growth as a country I can possibly see him getting re elected.
Will need interest rates to fall a lot though so people don’t feel the pinch like they do now.
Starmer saw haalands contract and thought “I want that”
He needs to sort out immigration or else he’s done in 4 years time.
Authoritarianism is the single biggest risk to the west. It is scary to think what the uk could look like in 10 years if we don’t get leaders who are willing to curtail government power significantly at some point soon.
>With Farage snapping at his heels, is Starmer worried that the U.K. will be next? “We need to be conscious of this threat,” he said. “But in the end the politics of easy answers isn’t right for our country because easy answers don’t change things for the better. All the populist right has to offer are supposedly easy answers that don’t actually materialize into change.”
He wasn’t my first choice but his commitment to battling Conservatism is truly commendable
Good. It’s gonna take that long to sort the shit show out the Torries left us in.
Tories are still a basket case and Reform are splitting the vote.
It’s 6 months in and they have time to do something.
The tricky part is… doing something.
There’s only one simple way to achieve that, and that’s people feeling like their lives have got and will get better. Mostly economically but also culturally and socially.
No sign of this at all yet, and no sign of fundamental reforms to make it happen in the medium to long term. But let’s wait and see.
I really, really want them to succeed but some of their decisions are hard to fathom. For example spending billions to hand over a strategic base to Mauritius, doing very little about immigration (which so many voters want action on) and the worst tax of them all in the form of employers NI, which will cut jobs and wage growth.
Hes such a shit PM. Man has no personality nor backbone.
Reading the article he didn’t really declare anything. Said he’d take each step as it comes. He would like a second term apparently.
Yeah, good luck with that. I highly doubt Starmer is serving a second term whenever reform is already soaring the ranks. If America is stupid enough to vote trump back in, then frankly voting in a reform or conservative government should be a piece of cake for the same nation that voted Brexit.
Better start getting good then.
I pray he does- not because I like him but because the alternative (Badenoch + Farage) would be the end of the UK as we know it
Man who is currently PM wants to win next election, say it ain’t so.
He probably will tbh. It’s easy to point out how quickly his ratings have collapsed but that’s just a sign of how volatile the electorate are. It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if in a single year he goes from being the most unpopular to the most popular politician.
Only one small issue with that: I believe he has to win the vote of the UK people. He at -45 percent LOL!
I think itll be tight in the next GE regardless. The media is giving a lot of coverage to Farage despite his pitiful position in the commons.
What a silly sausage that’s up to his handles & the Murdoch press.
We’re a few months in, why do people act like this PM and this government are doomed and next time round it’s bound to be that little prick Farage or whoever replaces Kemi’s replacement’s replacement? People need to remember that the past few years of chaotic governments and constant crises and changes aren’t politics as normal.
Remembering the shite that the toris done in the last thirteen years, he’ doing ok
Seems fair given the tories got 14 years to destroy the country he should get 10 to fix it.
Britons. This man sound sincere… not in a trump way
Absolutely no fooking chance fella….10 days was enough for you
Fix housing and frozen salary growth.
Do that and he’ll get 15+ years. Fail to do so, and we’ll be looking at Farage moving into number 10