on September 25, 2025, 12:06 pm, in reply to "But amazingly, less politically broken"
Can't ever seeing the fractures & divisions being solved.
It's horrible. 
Previous Message
Thsn US, France, Netherlands.
It maybe we have got to a position were societies problems are unsolvable.
Previous Message
.....and not making it to the next one as PM feels like the norm.
The UK is politically utterly broken. Previous Message
certainly preferable to the odious private healthcare funded Streeting. Do I think he's the answer to all the country's (and Labour Party's woes)? Not at all, but he might be the best viable option to prevent some kind of hideous Reform/Tory amalgam taking the reins at the next GE. We really would be into final nail in the coffin territory then and although things can change, it looks very much like that's where we are headed. At least with a more relatable leader, Labour might save a few seats. If a minority government has to work with other parties who push them leftwards that may again not be the worst possible outcome. Though I can see the media headlines already!
I think Starmer's doing a shit job, has "flexible" principles to put it mildly and is a terrible leader but these things didn't seem to be a problem for the Fleet St hack pack over the previous 14 years. Previous Message
Been reading a lot about it recently, which must mean a PR campaign is whirring into action.
I don't think Keir Starmer is doing a terrible job, aside from a miscalculation on winter fuel payments, but the same machine which clicked into gear after Jeremy Corbyn did so well in the 2017 election is clicking into place now and so the very word 'Starmer' has become a source of rage/hilarity in the same way that the word 'Corbyn' did through 2018/19.*
Easy enough for Burnham to slide into parliament via a by-election, and if we must join the Tories on a leadership merry-go-round then at least lets have an Evertonian who does seem to be vaguely intelligent.
*How different would UK Covid death rates have been if a Democratic Socialist Government had been put into power in December 2019 instead of a Tory party of Johnson, Hancock, Rees-Mogg etc?
Responses