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Should Starmer have ceded this football story to some Tory/Reform blowhard?
Sure, I would have preferred him to also make a statement abount football fans being milked by ever changing kits, but Starmer took the opportunty presented to him.
Politicians will say things 'you' don't like or agree with, that politician isn't you, and your vote alone won't despatch this failed Tory party, so expect a few things to be said that are not your view.
In the scheme of things, are football kits in the Top 10 issues you consider important?
The Right rallies around a single issue, 'lower taxes' and proclaims this even when raising taxes to the highest levels since 1947, and the rightwing press is prepared to support them.
Those not of the Left, the middle ground voters who will decide the next election, appear to be determined to find a single issue that is the breaking point,
'I couldn't possible vote for Kinnock/Smith/Blair/Brown/Milliband/Corbyn/Starmer because of X',
even when the other myriad of policies and statements are to their liking.
We have seen a Tory party of lightweight part-time politicians fail for the last 14 years.
We have a duty to vote them out, and hopefully see a destructive squabble as Reform/Farage/Marshall argue, in opposition with the few remaining One Nation Tories.
This Tory party has a proven track record of failure. They have no redeeming features. Hope might all we have left. And the Left deserves a chance to attempt to remedy the broken society they will inherit.