I don’t think Starmer is going anywhere, but atm I think there would be three frontrunners: Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting and Darren Jones.
https://x.com/g0adm/status/1940147931404771419?s=46
These neoliberals whether blue red or yellow will be the death of Britain.
There is nothing you can do about it I’m afraid.
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Hopefully the doctors don’t bottle it and vote to strike, wrecking Streeting in the process
What on earth have you seen over the last year that makes you think Starmer can “get a grip on the agenda”?
Everything he’s chosen to make a priority, he’s been beaten on. He can’t point to a single major policy success. And now he is very vulnerable and unlike Blair, who you mentioned, it’s clear the rebels in his party can and probably will take him down.
Welfare reform is a real issue. But Starmer’s government have clearly shown they can’t be trusted with it and the only answer they have is driving vulnerable people into poverty without thinking it through.
As a government without a backbone I don’t imagine it’s even occurred to them to look at the scale of tax avoidance from corporations or the super rich.
At the end of the day, in my opinion, the reason this government is so disliked across the political spectrum is that they are so clearly and obviously cowards without the slightest suggestion of a moral purpose. Just a craven wish to hold on to power no matter what that looks like.
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On the same fucking day, do they really have no sense of irony?
Proscribing a group guilty of criminal damage/sabotage as terrorists while celebrating a group that attemped to bomb the house of David Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
They only love a dead radical who fought to win them rights.
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Starmer was getting a nice photo op for Windrush the other week after talking down the Carribbean with his viewpoint of slavery about him not wanting to spend time on the past.
This is part of the M.O
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:tomi:
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Likewise, but I’d say I did hope I would regret it. But I choose self-respect first and was a good decision.
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Two voters for’t Monster Raving Loonie? 
I’ve spoiled my ballot before doing that, but it amounts to the same thing really.
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My view was that I’d let them prove me wrong, and that I’d be open to voting for them next time if they exceeded my expectations. So far they’ve dramatically fallen short.
I genuinely at least expected a measure of competence compared to recent Tory adminiatrations even if I didn’t love the policy, but they’ve not even done that.
Utter shambles.
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This country is screaming out for electoral reform
Politics of the parties aside. Half my choices were parachuted. Only Reform and Greens offered me a local choice. I voted for a local independent. All the same as spoiling really.
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FIFY
Biggest problem for me is all the choices presented are abysmal and getting worse
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I’m just amazed by the lack of talent. How can the UK have such a dearth of good leaders?
I don’t even mean politicians I like.
Objectively - David Cameron was a talented politician. I’d obviously never vote for him but I understood why people had confidence in him (harder to remember since the Brexit vote) and he had genuine widespread appeal.
Ben Wallace as Secretary for Defence - a Tory but indisputably a very capable leader of his department.
I just don’t see who we’ve got, in any department, that is any good. And electoral reform won’t change that.
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I feel the lack of talent is a feature not a bug. How many impressive leaders are there in the world as of right now compared to decades past? No joke if I thought of someone naturally charismatic, unbelievably it’d be Donald Trump despite all the jibberish and nonsense he sprouts.
It’s cultural and intentional at this point.
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Politics is no longer a career and merely a career move.
There are obviously still people left in politics where that isn’t true but I’d say for the vast majority entering nowadays it’s not something they want to be doing in 20/30 years time. To be fair, thats true of most careers outside politics too.
Which is what makes Starmer even more disappointing for me. Here’s a fella who ascended to the pinnacle of his chosen profession in his mid 40s and after a few years took the turn to politics. Why did he do that if he’s so weak when it comes to essentially every issue. What did he hope to achieve and how far from it is he?
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Had the easiest task of running the country after an absolute shambles that came before him and still manages to look like a clueless cunt. Tip my hat to you sir kier.
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The environment is ripe to create this kind of career politician establishment cunt.
I could write an essay on it but yeah.
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