The Earl of Chesterfield, on 03 July 2024 - 06:00 PM, said:
This is actually quite tragic.
Friends who've spent years sniping anti Labour whataboutery or championing the most corrupt characters in politics now behaving like Mansfield fans sneering at Town smashing the division.
'Huh, no one really likes Starmer'.
'Meh, it'll all fall apart'.
'Ner, summat about unions...summat about taxes...summat about Friday evenings'.
Well truth is SKS inherited a party suffering it's worst defeat in a century. A party still populated by the cult of Corbyn. A party with too many members at best ignoring, or at worst peddling anti-Semitism.
He also faced a prime minister boasting an eighty seat majority slavishly backed by three quarters of the media. A plethora of platforms spewing out anti Labour bile on a minute-by-minute basis.
Yet in the space of just five years he's turned that 'round and is on the precipice of an historic victory.
Is he charismatic?
No.
Is he bold?
No.
Is he offering a raft of exciting policies?
No.
But he is ruthless. He has made Labour electable. He has spiked any gun the tories might point at him.
Leaving them lying about tax, lying about defence spending and lying about a months old quote where Darren Jones clearly says inheritance tax won't be changed.
Whilst their mates in the Mail-esque media print hysterically hypocritical red ink headlines warning of 'Starmergeddon', some 'super majority' or eight page instructions on how to vote tactically.
That scraping everyone can hear is the sound of clawed fingernails on the bottom of a sewage filled barrel.
Any Labour majority will be a huge acheivement. One in the dozens will be astonishing. And one despatching the likes of Rees-Mogg, Spencer, Jenrick, Gullis and Shapps to the political wilderness - as predicted in the last poll - will be pure, un-adulterated hilarity...
He's not turned anything around. The Tories have done themselves out of being re-elected. Nothing more, nothing less. People are fed up with them and Labour have reaped the benefits that's all.
Labour should be guaranteed power for the next 10 years. All they have to do is do a half decent job and they will be re-elected as people will still have the Tory issues still in their mind in 5 years. If they don't get in again, then they have seriously messed up.
Blair led a campaign for real change with New Labour, their was an air of excitement and the country got behind him.
This time there is none of that, no change, no excitement and no inspiration. Just a vote to rid the Tories out of power and humiliate them as revenge and payback for their actions.
Most people can see this, most people feel this, obviously apart from the Labour die-hards.
If they do a good job then fair play and they will deserve a vote next time. Mess it up and they might be out in 5 years. However, they have a solid background that they can't possibly be any worse at as starting part.