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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-
Come election time we'll need a proper manifesto. Now? I can see it only damaging his electoral chances
This is everything for me at the moment. There is zero reason to set anything out right now. His current job is to harass the government in parliament.
Every time sunak says labour have no vision at pmq, I wish starmer used the line "call an election and I'll release our manifesto"
Grumpy_Git
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