Prime minister facing disastrous elections in Scotland, Wales and England next year as his party trails Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the polls
I mean yeah, she’s not a time traveller or a precog so that’s probably quite an accurate and obvious statement…
lmao, reporter: “do you think Starmer will still be PM?” her: “shit I dunno, pr-”
reporter: “SHE DOES NOT KNOW.”
he’s nationalising rail, building houses, and doing a lot of what he’d said he’d do
whats the beef
I like nationalised rail and all that. But then there’s Palestine, his pro-AI stance, suppressing dissent, the ID scheme, and the “island of strangers” thing. I know it was foolish to expect much better from a Sir, but still disappointing.
thats true, he’s not the labour we want but he’s the exact labour he said he’d be
Normally that’s fine, but when the right to publicly dissent, already so tenuous, is being actively threatened it hardly matters what’s being delivered on. He could be handing out UBI, but if he was cracking down on the anti-UBI people I’d still be upset about that.
I didn’t have Theresa May becoming Labour leader on my bingo card, though perhaps desperate times call for desperate measures.
Look, I’m not happy with what Starmer and Co have done so far in aggregate, but the PLP would be signing its own death warrant if they engaged in the type or psychodrama which the Tories did over the last 5 years.
A good amount of MPs already know they will likely lose their seats in 2029, but a) trying to accelerate that is not in their interest, b) the circumstances are fucked, and won’t change with someone new in charge.
Economically, we’re still going cap in hand to the bond markets, we still have an incredibly hostile press, and there is little to no community cohesion to resist negative stories along “dual power” lines.
None of that changes with Burnham, or an SCG-aligned alternative.
I completely agree, they’ve got five years, they should try to actually get something done.
