Lieutenant Dan wrote:
Lieutenant Dan wrote:
I'd love to read a concise answer to this question: what does a Keir Starmer Labour Party stand for? And I'd like to see an answer that doesn't just involve deflecting and bashing the Conservatives.
Anyone?
As I’ve already stated, I’m a life-long Labour supporter, and in my younger days an activist. I couldn’t tell you what Starmer’s Labour stands for. But I know this. I’m glad that he’s not Corbyn.
Like I’m constantly banning on about, I’m a life-long supporter. I’ve worked for the party on a voluntary basis, fund raised, even been arrested on a miners strike demo. So it’s fair to say I think I’ve done my bit. When Corbyn took over the party, me and folk like me, people who’d put their lives into supporting the socialist cause, were being told by others who’d paid £2 to register as Labour supporters that we weren’t welcome. I was actually called a ‘friend of Israel’ by someone simply for having the temerity to be married to someone who once lived there. It just became stupid towards the end.
His, Corbyn’s, biggest achievement in politics was to stand on a stage at Glastonbury and have the crowd sing Seven Nation Army back at him. Well done. Take that to the polls. Oh he did you say! And how did that work out? The biggest Conservative majority since God was a boy. Well done.
What I’m trying to get across to those who think that Starmer is vanilla is this. Unless you’ve been through the above, you can have no idea what it’s been like since the Brexit vote. No idea whatsoever. It’s been dreadful. Starmer! He’s obviously not much better than Sunak. But he is better.
Here’s what I think is going to happen. Starmer’s Labour win the next general election, but without much enthusiasm from anyone. Including the Labour Party itself. It won’t be a rerun of Blair in ‘97, even although arguably the Conservatives are in a worse state now than they were then. Starmer will win simply by being the least worst option. Nothing much will change. Because the country’s been run into the ground. There’s no magic wand that Labour when in power can wave to undo what the current government has done to this country. That’s how it is.
And I know you didn’t want the Conservative party’s part in all of this discussed, but allow an old man his say. The Conservative Party will lurch even further to the right than they already have. Sunak will either fall victim to a Braverman led coup, or will leave politics and return to the USA where he once held a green card, and count his enormous pile of cash. Under Braverman, they will engage in populist agendas, and as with Trump’s Republicans, just plain lies. If you think that Sue-Ellen’s 700m refugees heading to the UK’s shores on a flotilla of inflatable lie-lows is bad, then you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Whatever happens, we’re fucked either way. Best go with Billy Connolly’s take on politics… Don’t vote. It’ll only encourage them.