Starmer's vision quest

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CXRAndy

Squire
They certainly don't care what the libs on this forum are calling them 🙂

This is true. I sense a whimpering from some lefties on here
 
Yeah, great policy to chase those Reform voters, Kier.

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CXRAndy

Squire
Yet, he's bleeding voters from all sides.

Just underscores how very little support Labour had to win the election. Most people didnt vote, so what was left did vote for Labour and they won vast number of seats with small turnout.

Now Reform have the backing of the majority of fascists, racists bigots, xenophobes, they are predicted to crush the two main uniparties.
 

CXRAndy

Squire
100 illegal immigrant charities complain about Labours rhetoric, worrying they may lose their British citizens funding
 

CXRAndy

Squire
This government just keeps giving so many sticks in which to beat them

The Prime Minister’s new tax-raising economic adviser has not paid tax for 17 years because her employers footed the bill, a Telegraph investigation has found.

Baroness Shafik, 63, a crossbench peer who was appointed to the Downing Street role by Sir Keir Starmer on Sept 1 ahead of the autumn Budget, has repeatedly called for tax rises.
 

BoldonLad

Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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What, he bought a field for his parents to keep donkeys, didn't get any tax advantage at all, and that's hypocritical?

The claim (not saying it is true, I was commenting on the claim) was that it included a dodge of inheritance tax. Personally, I see nothing wrong in that, after all, the Miliband's did it, but, the difference is, I dont go around saying that other people should pay more taxes. 😊
 
Maybe @briantrumpet can post the source for us. It seems very likely however that very few Reform voters are staunch left wingers.

https://politicscentre.nuffield.ox....electoral-challenges-are-being-misunderstood/

It was easy to see, in 2024, that Reform benefited from Conservative failures in office. It follows that Reform’s next target would be voters disillusioned with Labour’s upcoming failures in government. Farage has repeatedly said that Reform is now ‘parking their tanks on Labour’s lawns’. This is a phrase that can be misleading. Reform are starting to make substantial in-roads in Labour areas, as evidenced by May’s 2025 local council elections, but it is not true that they are doing so by making substantial in-roads among Labour’s recent voters.

You can see why Labour might be struggling to respond to this new challenge. But responding wrongly, based on a shorthand, has massive electoral risks, because you could be alienating the very people who have voted for you and who would have been much more likely to do so in another election, including in those very places. It is far harder for Reform to win Labour voters than it is for them to win more votes from the Conservatives, and this remains true regardless of the ‘Leave-y-ness’ of the part of the country. The continued split on the right – not the left - continues to give Reform UK the chance to say they are ‘parking their tanks on Labour’s lawns’. Labour needs to separate understanding these places from understanding their voters within them. If Labour goes after long-lost Labour voters, from many elections ago, their job will arguably be even harder.
 
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