That Starmer fella...

The Tories have no obvious route to victory

• they can’t run on their record of delivery as whether they start the click at 2010, 2016, 2019 or the last 12 months, it’s a catalogue of administrative incompetence, waste, corruption and nastiness (and they’ve deliberately ramped up the latter over the last year)
  
• they are desperate to find a wedge issue but all attempts so far have failed to stick (doesn’t mean that they won’t go full on in the lead up to the election)
  
• even the “we delivered Brexit” doesn’t stack up given the ratings that the project currently enjoys
  
  

Their only hope is that the non-Tory vote gets split and that they manage to squeak in most votes by just pandering to their guaranteed core vote. That might not give them enough to form a government in their own but who knows what unholy alliance can be cooked up. And if that happens, we’re all properly fucked.

An alternative of a split not-Tory is that Labour scrape a small majority or have to form a coalition as largest part (and the latter is on the face of it quite appealing) - cue even more challenges to address the scorched/salted earth that the Tories are looking to bequeath and the attacks will be relentless leading to a return of “the natural party of government” before the end of the decade. As above, that leaves us fucked.

What has this got to do with this thread? A lot as it was only a page or so back that Starmer was described as a cunt. That doesn’t mean a reductive “if you don’t support Starmer, you support the Tories” but it does speak to the desired outcome of the next election - getting the Tories out is the main objective.

Would a Labour government under any leadership be better than the current shower (or any combination of them since 2010?). I’d definitely hope so and if you hope then there’s at least a chance, right?