Starmer's vision quest

[briantrumpet]

Agree with most of that, however I think waiting ‘years’ to scrap the 2 child benefit cap is a bit of an exaggeration. Even if the Starmer premiership has felt like a lifetime.

Also he kept us out of a stupid war, Farage or Badenoch would have had us marching straightaway.

The final bit about brexit is the nail on the head.

On the international stage, he was very good (if you ignore the Trump brown-nosing obsequiousness). But domestically he pissed off most of his 'natural' supporters, one way or another in his idiotic quest for the 'hero voters', and even the things he got right in the end he managed do piss people off before making the right decision.

 

[Bromptonaut]

Agree with most of that, however I think waiting ‘years’ to scrap the 2 child benefit cap is a bit of an exaggeration. Even if the Starmer premiership has felt like a lifetime.

Also he kept us out of a stupid war, Farage or Badenoch would have had us marching straightaway.

The final bit about brexit is the nail on the head.

The two child limit was scrapped by legislation passed in 2025 effective when the benefit changes fo 2026/7 came in this April.

 

[C R]

Couldn't happen as Labour and Tories don't have enough seats to form a majority. They would have to also link with Lib Dems (Romania Coalition).

The only workable majority would be Broad Left (Lab / Green / Lib Dem / SNP) with Plaid, a progressive alliance (same but without Plaid) or Romania Coalition

https://www.nowcast.uk/home/pr-calculator

The Labour Party in its current incarnation would be more likely to lean towards reform than "those extremists on the left"

 

[briantrumpet]

The final bit about brexit is the nail on the head.

 

[C R]

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No lessons have been learnt.

 

[Badger_Boom]

No lessons have been learnt.

They never are.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

On the international stage, he was very good

Well apart from his implacable support of all things Zionist.
Burnham has been associated with Labour Friends of Israel, so I don't expect radical change.

This will come to nothing but might raise some interesting debate.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026...israeli-influence-on-uk-politics-what-we-know

 

[briantrumpet]

Well apart from his implacable support of all things Zionist.
Burnham has been associated with Labour Friends of Israel, so I don't expect radical change.

This will come to nothing but might raise some interesting debate.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026...israeli-influence-on-uk-politics-what-we-know

Fair.