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Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about our stats, but I do find it a bit irritating to be lectured about how bad our current polls are from people who spent the last year deliberately misrepresenting and undermining the party's positions for clicks, and the last six years telling us to ignore Corbyn's historically unpopular polling.
This seems a bit of a strange thing to say? Starmer has had it on easy mode, he's essentially just had some people grumbling on social media.
Wait until you get a sustained attack from the blue ticks, your party trying to stab you in the back (and front), a hostile media and smears to deal with.
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This seems a bit of a strange thing to say? Starmer has had it on easy mode, he's essentially just had some people grumbling on social media.
Wait until you get a sustained attack from the blue ticks, your party trying to stab you in the back (and front), a hostile media and smears to deal with.Corbyn was up against the worst PM in recent history and he still managed to finish 2017 55 seats down to her. The Socialist Campaign Group of MPs have been briefing against Starmer since day one, and in the last few months, referring to leadership challenges. If SCG had the numbers, they'd trigger a leadership challenge just like the PLP did against Corbyn. It's only the fact that they're such a small number of MPs which has meant they can't.
I have absolutely no problem with criticising Starmer for stuff he's done, but let's not pretend that factionalism isn't a sword which cuts both ways. Labour will eat itself.
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a hostile media and smears to deal with
It's possible that Starmer hasn't had the same level of hostile media as Corbyn as Corbyn refused to adjust to the media, and was punished for it.
He was very naive/honest (delete as applicable) and would happily give the media plenty of fodder. All the furore around trident for instance or his recent statement when the report onto anti-semitism was published.
The papers have had a try at Starmer, remember the stories about him being a rich landowner that ended up with it being his mum's donkey sanctuary, but there's not that much for them to get their teeth into.
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It's not really true, though, is it? Not unless you take the ABSOLUTE BEST poll from the 2019 elections and the ABSOLUTE WORST from now. Poll of polls show it in context:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about our stats, but I do find it a bit irritating to be lectured about how bad our current polls are from people who spent the last year deliberately misrepresenting and undermining the party's positions for clicks, and the last six years telling us to ignore Corbyn's historically unpopular polling.