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Starmer can’t seem to provoke much emotion from anyone outside of the labour membership. IMO that makes him more ‘unelectable’
I can see that point of view. I don’t know if it is right - it was a blessing and a curse for Corbyn, as those strong views meant that people voted against as well as for him, and despite two tries he couldn’t get the ‘for’ team bigger than the ‘against’.
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I think that, unlike some here, the general public doesn’t care that he was elected from the membership based on a left leaning policy platform that he’s abandoning at will, whilst also trying to consolidate power of the right of the party.
The electorate had an incredibly polarised view of Corbyn (and we can debate ad infinium why that was), but Starmer can’t seem to provoke much emotion from anyone outside of the labour membership. IMO that makes him more ‘unelectable’ than Corbyn, and he’s not even pushing a policy platform that excites me.