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Would Wes Streeting be an improvement? I have no idea how people percieve him.
Absolutely not. No way.I think he is popular though. And performs well in interviews etc. Is your ‘absolutely not’ just because he’s not on the left of the party?
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I think he is popular though. And performs well in interviews etc. Is your ‘absolutely not’ just because he’s not on the left of the party?
If you look at Yougov's polling on popularity of politicians, Starmer comes out top for Q1 2022. Unfortunately Wes Streeting is not part of the dataset so we don't know where he'd come.
Johnson is the 8th most popular politician in the country at the moment.
https://yougov.co.uk/ratings/politics/popularity/politicians-political-figures/all
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Is your ‘absolutely not’ just because he’s not on the left of the party?
No. We won't get a leader from the left of the party in my lifetime, I'm afraid. But he's on record as saying he's for more private sector involvement in the NHS which I find staggering for a Labour Health spokesman. Plus he's LFI, which for me is a deal-breaker. YMMV.
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When Corbyn was in charge he was always first to undermine him in the Daily Mail (in exactly the same way that happens now from the left).
But tbh I get behind anyone once the vote is won.
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Absolutely not. No way.
Thing is, there were policies that did win votes from the Tories in 2017. They were popular. They inspired people. Labour got 40% of the vote that year which, with current levels of Tory apathy, would probably result in a hung parliament with Labour being the largest party (though not by much). Starmer told everyone that year's manifesto should be the blueprint for Labour's future. And what has he done? He's ditched the lot.
Which gets me to my ultimate point, which is that Labour is going to be attacked anyway, whatever it does and however 'carefully' it tries to steer away from so-called wedge issues. So it might as well be attacked for policies that are popular than for, I dunno, some bullshit the press decides to rake up. Sooner or later it's going to have to take a position on some of the 'wedge' and, when that time comes, if all it has is the same shit with better administration, I'm really not sure how compelling an offer that is.