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IF the polls are true.
Not being the tories has got Labour into a winning position with a 20 point lead.
Why risk it? Why change it? Looks like Labour's plan is working, why this close to an election decide to go off in a different direction?
To keep some actavists happy? Who will a) prob find fault with something b) vote Labour anyway in their very safe Labour seats.
Idea; if you want a massive Labour landslide, makes tories not scared of labour then you win big and hopefully have lots of time and mandate to change stuff
DoubtfulAce-
Why risk it? Why change it?
Annoyingly for me as a person (because I'd like to see more vision from Starmer too) I think you're right.
I keep coming back to Blair and Brown. For them, making the bank of England independent of government was a week one action - it was clearly something they felt they needed to do and had a very clear vision about it. But they didn't say a thing about it before the election - the manifesto and pledge card stayed completely schtum. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/04/independence-day-why-gordon-brown-gave-the-bank-the-right-to-set-interest-rates
I hope that Starmer is following a similar plan, and that there's a lot of work going on in the background. I get the frustration, but if I were in his shoes I'm not sure I'd risk it at this point.
Come election time we'll need a proper manifesto. Now? I can see it only damaging his electoral chances.
ReekBlefs
No vision, only election
At least that appears to be the sentiment here. I totally agree that with the polling being where it is (and being even remotely accurate) that he needs to set out a vision of how Labour will improve people's lives rather than merely not being the other lot