Starmer's vision quest

[CXRAndy]

View: https://x.com/KEdge23/status/1991805235845833072?t=1Co7sH_vTIrayyzOd1I7PQ&s=19

 

[CXRAndy]

View: https://x.com/addicted2newz/status/1992008602367009047?t=brbiwj6h2nL3stdm1OJJqg&s=19

 

[CXRAndy]

View: https://x.com/jessgill03/status/1991904947298824227?t=nzsUIOr0en9fwDU1m-dJ6g&s=19

 

[CXRAndy]

View: https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1992000023278530578?t=IqDM7ETzz5tgq2_TRIxtag&s=19

 

[briantrumpet]

Good

Just how low in the polls will they go before they twig that aping Reform is not going to work?

 

[Pblakeney]

Good

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Just how low in the polls will they go before they twig that aping Reform is not going to work?

They also have to wander outside of the Westminster bubble from time to time.

 

[briantrumpet]

They also have to wander outside of the Westminster bubble from time to time.

Even better if they'd get off X for starters.

 

[The Crofted Crest]

and WTF is "favourability"?

 

[CXRAndy]

Good

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Just how low in the polls will they go before they twig that aping Reform is not going to work?

If Reform win the next general election, you are going to be over the moon

 

[briantrumpet]

All academic at the mo, but not if there's a total rout at the local elections. (Obviously it's even more academic for Burnham, as he's not even an MP.) Starmer might take note how unpopular Mahmood is both with the party membership and the public.

 

[briantrumpet]

Alistair Campbell on the Labour Party's woes - worth a read.

https://archive.ph/qUcDK

We live in a media world addicted to frenzy, which prefers scandal and personality spats to serious policy and important trends; a world in which since the invention of the iPhone in 2007 we have had seven prime ministers, whereas the seven PMs before that lasted 43 years between them.

When poll ratings are as bad as Labour’s and Starmer’s, there will inevitably be leadership chatter. The challenge for everyone in government in such circumstances is to govern better, not play the media game for them.

There are too many people in government who seem to think they are the stars of an episode of The West Wing or House of Cards. Last week was more like The Thick Of It, just a lot less funny.

 

[secretsqirrel]

Alistair Campbell on the Labour Party's woes - worth a read.

https://archive.ph/qUcDK

And there was I thinking Campbell was a proponent of the media game back in the day.

 

[Pblakeney]

And there was I thinking Campbell was a proponent of the media game back in the day.

Campbell was the hammer, today's lot are the nails.

 

[BoldonLad]

They also have to wander outside of the Westminster bubble from time to time.

This is true of ALL of them, regardless of party!

 

[Pblakeney]

This is true of ALL of them, regardless of party!

Indeed!
My perception is that the vast majority are career politicians. That can work but there is a disconnect with "the working man".