Starmer's vision quest

[CXRAndy]

It's a sticking plaster to mend a severed artery.

 

[AndyRM]

The biggest question is whether they are actually going to do something effective to address the issue or whether it is just making it look like they're doing something. In the end it's hard to ideas the number will give the game away if they haven't done enough.

Yeah that's the crux of it I suppose. There are a lot of facets to the issue, and when you've got a lot of people believing the "problem" is a lot worse than it is, it's difficult to know what they're actually going or hoping to achieve.

 

[Pross]

He's now making exactly the same mistake the Tories did under Cameron and allowing Farage to dictate government policy despite having next to no representation in parliament. In the case of Cameron the perceived threat of UKIP following some local election results ended up with the ill-fated Brexit vote. The subsequent fallout of that internally has effctively killed them off as a political force for the time being. Now Labour are panicking after the local elections and desperately trying to bring in a Reform friendly immigration policy. FFS show some backbone, you were elected with a huge majority less than a year ago by people desperate for the mess of the previous 8 years to be fixed. Do what you think is right instead of allowing a bunch of populist airbags to divert you into their agenda.

 

[Dorset Boy]

True it was a huge majority in terms of seats, but it was far, far from that in terms of votes cast. I suspect the decision makers in Labour are looking at votes cast and pooping themselves, whilst forgetting they should still have 4 years in office to do whatever they want.