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I know I will receive howls of laughter for this from some, but I think Starmer is pretty far left of centre in personal idealogy. At least that's the impression I get from his pre politics legal opinions.
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Agree 100%. He's far to the left of Blair, not quite so far to the left as Corbyn, but much closer to it than the other way - he's part of the soft left tradition of Neil Kinnock and the like. He just knows that if he says it out loud he'll be a commie pinko traitor trotsky (etc etc) and less able to lead the party to govt.
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You got any examples of that? I mean, I know he spoke at pro-Palestine events before that was deemed unacceptable by the shriekers and he defended those in the McLibel trial, but he did an awful lot of seriously dodgy shit too, including trying to deport someone with learning difficulties for hacking into the Pentagon and being on-the-record furious when Theresa May (of all people!) overruled him.
ReekBlefs
ketsbaia
Exactly. Media strategy MATTERS. It's what means people still associate Corbyn with the Russkies and why Starmer is having to fight so hard to stay still when Johnson can get utterly tanked with a KGB agent and the red tops barely bat an eyelid. People see words like 'radical' and they recoil.
Think about New Labour. Barely a mention of the Bank Of England in the 97 manifesto, but so important to Blair and Brown that they made it independent in the first week of office. What you sell to the public is bland so you can do something bold when you're in office.