Lee Anderson is 'very angry' - a thread for all Lee Anderson's ire....

[C R]

It's the rump of Brexit voters I guess

And the inability/unwillingness of Starmer to differentiate himself from the tories.

 

[Fab Foodie]

And the inability/unwillingness of Starmer to differentiate himself from the tories.

Whilst I 100% agree, with the lead he has in the polls right now, why screw it up?
Am hoping Starmer's playing the long game and we will get a gradual shift leftward and EUward once Labour are firmly in the driving seat...
Appreciate it's a big hope!

 

[multitool]

And the inability/unwillingness of Starmer to differentiate himself from the tories.

I think that is highly unlikely.

Reform voters will be anti-immigration, anti 'woke', full on into culture war.

Explain to me how Starmer can differentiate himself from the Tories more than he already is and appeal to these people.

 

[All uphill]

All I want is my country back," he added, along with polio, workhouses, leaded petrol, the toffs in charge, no FOI, police left to get on with the job and women knowing their place.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

He does remind me of a phrase my Dad used a few times

when my Mum was out of earshot anyway

"wouldn't trust him to sit the right way round on a toilet"

 

[multitool]

There's an open door for an attack on Sunak with this. Sunak made his Deputy Chairman. Certainly calls into question his judgement.

 

[Deleted member 121]

Mr Anderson is a Labour plant. Sure it cost Labour a seat but look at the damage he's done to the Cons and he can do no more now and so defect to Reform to ensure Cons lose Ashfield (probably). Lee Anderson is worth every penny he earns... an absolute genius.

 

[multitool]

To top it off, the Conservatives actually paid Anderson whilst he was working for Labour. Genius.

 

[C R]

There's an open door for an attack on Sunak with this. Sunak made his Deputy Chairman. Certainly calls into question his judgement.

But will labour actually push on it?

 

[multitool]

But will labour actually push on it?

Maybe not. Hostage to fortune, and all that.

 

[craigwend]

Has he gone that far right that he's in danger of coming back around the other side as a 'looney lefty'?

Unless your a flat earther and he's in danger of just falling off...

 

[BoldonLad]

Has he gone that far right that he's in danger of coming back around the other side as a 'looney lefty'?

Unless your a flat earther and he's in danger of just falling off...

Well, as I understand it, he did start off in the Labour Party, perhaps, he is in orbit?

 

[C R]

Well, as I understand it, he did start off in the Labour Party, perhaps, he is in orbit?

In orbit around his own ego

 

[Fab Foodie]

In orbit around his own ego

...and hopefully will get sucked into his own black hole....

 

[C R]

I think that is highly unlikely.

Reform voters will be anti-immigration, anti 'woke', full on into culture war.

Explain to me how Starmer can differentiate himself from the Tories more than he already is and appeal to these people.

I've been ruminating a considered answer to that point, but Frances Ryan does a better job in here

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/keir-starmer-labour-poor-sick-disabled-tory

Basically, both the tories and labour have been shoving a baseball bat wrapped in razor wire up the ärse of the most disadvantaged in society. Neither labour nor the tories are listening, and all labour can bring itself to do is offer some diluted lidocaine to numb the pain a bit. Is it any wonder that people would listen to someone who cares, even if the concern is fake?