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This country needs genuinely transformative change, not continuity or things being slightly better.
Feels like a stepping stone may be needed to get from here to transformative change though?
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Just the transformative changes that Starmer pledged he would make would be nice.
This article is mainly about Seldon's views on Boris Johnson (and it's a great read), but he is a very clever man who knows much more about Prime Ministers than anyone else in the country. His take on Starmer:
"The country now needs a synthesis from whichever party. The great prime ministers are healers and teachers. They need to be able to tell a story of where they have come from and to where they will lead us.”
Is that leader evident to him?
“Well,” he says, “this is the reason why for the moment Starmer is disappointing, because there is this enormous desire for renewal. But Starmer seems micro when he could be macro, cautious when he could be passionate, dull where he could be inspirational.”
For all his many faults, you knew where Blair stood and that he was confident in the popularity of those beliefs.
tbc
The problem, as I think you are now seeing, with the argument, is that it's not even good. When someone (repeatedly) tells you who they are, believe them.
This country needs genuinely transformative change, not continuity or things being slightly better.