That Starmer fella...

I genuinely did not expect the strategy to play out as well as it has done. Long way to go, but really feels like Starmer has picked his advisors well.

Much as it has antagonised the left he's doing what is necessary to get the Tories out of government. And so far I've seen nothing to see he has abandoned his left wing principles.

Although if/when he wins it's all down to the size of his majority as to whether he can gvern from the left or seek consensus from a middle ground.

Liz Truss!!! That's brilliant.

That must be the relentless media narrative about the national debt and treating it like a family's household budget.

It is obviously hyperbolic but the reality is he's broken every one of his leadership pledges.

Sunak isn’t loads better. lolcunt.

the reality is he's broken every one of his leadership pledges.

Has he though? Here they are.

https://keirstarmer.com/plans/10-pledges/

Has Starmer produced a manifesto? Is he in power? If not, how can he break his pledges for what he would do in power?

The only promise he made about what he would do when not in power is this:

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Just spent half an hour reading through a variety of web sites saying Starmer has broken all of his pledges. It's mind numbing.

How on earth can somebody say that Starmer has broken a specific pledge for what Labour will do if he is Prime Minister based on a couple of sentences from an interview with Rachel Reeves while they are still in opposition?

A rare instance where the Telegraph and Daily Mail are reporting the same theme as Labour left news sites.

Has he though?

Well he hasn't delivered on them has he? So it doesn't seem unreasonable to say that he's failed to deliver a single one of his pledges.

It would be nice to know what he would do.

True. I bet you some of the people who voted in the leadership election actually thought that the opposition could deliver on those things.

It would be nice to know what he would do.

One would assume/hope he would deliver on the pledges he made. And if not possible (perhaps if he doesn't have the majority he needs), hopefully then to stick to them as much as possible.

Or maybe he is a Tory in disguise and will reveal himself the day after the election and carry on the Tory 2019 manifesto.

I know its likely polls will narrow but even so, I expect he will have one of the biggest majorities in history. (Unless something pretty extraordinary happens in the meantime).

More voter suppression would be my guess at the Tories next move.

Voter id

^ They've probably got time to redraw a few boundaries also by the next election?

(I realise the boundary review is already planned - but they'll fudge it even more now)

This actually made me feel a tiny bit hopeful.

https://youtu.be/Lq6ltGVQxM4

From Alastair Campbell’s diaries, 1995…

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Spicy, and arguably a little true.

It’s all quite spicy. Enjoyable read, especially in the current context.

Sunak is not having a great time. hes basically doing as badly as Johnson did at the height of Partygate.

Poor lad.

He's been pathetic so far, no? Invisible for a lot of his early tenure, has failed to offer any kind of coherent vision of what he believes in, has completely misjudged his response to industrial action by public sector workers and made a big thing about integrity and accountability, then has failed to act before he's forced to when it's clear he needed to be stronger sooner as scandal after scandal dominates the news cycles.

I think Labour's attack line of him being weak and not up to the job resonates with large swathes of the electorate.

Funnily enough, I've seen some of my left leaning friends write almost the same thing about Starmer!

Yeah, Sunak has had a shocker so far. It also reminds me how important it is for prime ministers to have charisma if they're going to brazen out a mess.

Funnily enough, I've seen some of my left leaning friends write almost the same thing about Starmer!

I started reading that assuming it was about Starmer.

We always slag Liz Truss for her Margret Thatcher tribute act but that was surface level. Thatcher would never have done a budget like the one Truss did.

Rishi Sunak's Thatcher cosplay (great name for a band, that) is deep - it goes right to the ideology. It's the only political tool he has.