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Were you of voting age in '92?
Anything Starmer says before the coming General Election will be twisted by our rightwing press.
Any sensible, progressive policies will be stolen by shameless Tory chancellors,
(most recently changes to NonDom status).I am willing to believe Starmer if he tells me the sky is green, if it leads to a Labour government.
I was indeed of voting age in 1992.
Starmer has spent a lot of time getting the right wing press on-side; think pieces for the Mail, courting Murdoch etc None of them have had a sustained attack at Starmer, as he's generally promising to deliver what their after. At this stage if feels more like a coronation, rather than an election.
As for the last sentence, it feels a bit football politics - do anything to get the red team over the line, regardless of what they stand for.What do you think Starmer's Labour will deliver once in power? I tend to think he'll do as he says, and we'll have, at best, end stage Blairite or Coalition policies.
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I do remember Starmer being criticised for supporting a donkey sanctuary.
I do remember Starmer being accused of failing to prosecute Jimmy Saville.
These were just warm ups, the right wing press will get ever more febrile after the election is announced.
After 14 years of Tory maladministration, we know there is no combination of their policies that will deliver a fairer society.
I currently have no idea what a Starmer government will deliver, because as above, any 'good' policies will be stolen and partly implemented by this shameless tail end of an administration.
But there is a greater prospect of polices based upon social justice from a Labour government, and, that is good enough. -
Starmer has spent a lot of time getting the right wing press on-side; think pieces for the Mail, courting Murdoch etc
Feels somewhat reminiscent of Blair and the Sun coming over to support him.
It's unlikely the Tories are going to win even if the press go full hatchet job on Starmer so Murdoch, etc may as well be pragmatic and get on board.
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What do you think Starmer's Labour will deliver once in power? I tend to think he'll do as he says, and we'll have, at best, end stage Blairite or Coalition policies.
One (smallish and watered-down, but tangible) thing is the strengthening of workers' rights - inter alia, protection from unfair dismissal from day one of employment.
When I started work, you had to be employed for two years to have that sort of basic right. The 1997 Labour government reduced the qualifying period to one year in 1999, the Cameron/LibDem coalition put it right back up to two years from 2012.
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Were you of voting age in '92?
Anything Starmer says before the coming General Election will be twisted by our rightwing press.
Any sensible, progressive policies will be stolen by shameless Tory chancellors,
(most recently changes to NonDom status).
I am willing to believe Starmer if he tells me the sky is green, if it leads to a Labour government.