ElBurroSinNombre
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Everyone who knows Starmer remarks at how ruthless he is. In our 'winner takes all' electoral system the only important thing is to win, there are no political prizes for being principled. I hope that he is positioning himself to win the election with his current Blairite blandness. before becoming leader he was considered to be on the centre left of the party, as leader he now looks more to the centre right or beyond.i dont think its just that Starmer is boring or lacks charisma - i dont think hes that much different form the Current Tories in charge. as head of the CPS he consistently came down on the side of government and government agencies when they were clearly in the wrong. He jumps on almost any bandwagon and will not make important decisons for fear of being unpopular. This current crop of Tories are possibly the most venal and self serving that have ever been in power, is Starmer as bad as that - no! but he is as out of touch and I'm not convinced that he has either the policies or the motivation to rectify or even possibly slow the grind of the social and economic policies of the last 50 years; wealth disparity and reduced opportunity, impossible living costs including housing, failing education system, crumbling health service, ecological crisis etc etc.
A large majority should give him at least two terms and the platform to make changes. The British way is pragmatic incremental change, to reverse the current malaise will take more than four years. It would take decades. I would love to see utilities bought back into public ownership, more social housing, less profit taking and more service providing. The first step is getting elected.