Keir Starmer at it again..

[Templeton Peck]

Not sure about airports but I love Keir Starmer.

 

[Tony Towner]

Not sure about airports but I love Keir Starmer.

 

[Kenny]

Dubai is shit - not quite sure how they have made it so bad.

Well catching my connecting flight for Singapore I didn't see much as we had to run from one side to the other to catch the next plane.
Just utterly knackered when we sat in it for 2 hours on the way home

 

[Wombat del combate]

Nice is nice, always efficient there. I particularly enjoyed one arrival a few years ago when there was the sum total of zero people checking passports so we just carried on walking.

 

[lemonjelly]

Nice is nice,

La La, la-la-la!

 

[Tony Towner]

Jo Cox's sister has put herself forward as a candidate for Batley. A gift for Starmer

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 46% (+1)
LAB: 28% (-2)
LDEM: 8% (+1)
GRN: 8% (-)
REFUK: 2% (-)

via @YouGov, 19 - 20 May Chgs. w/ 12 May

 

[The Saturday Boy]

Labour would be 20 points ahead with any other leader....

 

[Tony Towner]

I get the ironic nature of your post re Corbyn. It is worrying that I don't think it would be much different whoever the leader was, at least not at the moment

 

[BillyDee]

I'm sure once his Piers Morgan's Life Stories episode airs, he'll be storming up the polls...

 

[The Saturday Boy]

I get the ironic nature of your post re Corbyn. It is worrying that I don't think it would be much different whoever the leader was, at least not at the moment

The Labour Party has dropped from 40% in the 2017 election (Corbyn) to 28% in the latest opinion polls (Starmer). The problem is the Labour Party, not their leader. It is a dysfunctional organisation that hasn’t been able to respond to the biggest issues of the day since 2010 yet the narrative (mainly from within its own ranks) has been...elected the wrong brother, it’s Corbyn, it’s Starmer.

Meanwhile, the Conservative Party has successfully owned a succession of Liberal (almost socialist) policies.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Labour is scared of itself. Tories are loud and proud on policy whilst Labour are timid. Or they're just agreeing with the Tories. This has got worse under Starmer who on some issues is now being outflanked on the left by Tories and Democrats.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

At least the Momentum fools that are too far left to ever do anything other than be electorally sidelined are binned off and shouting from the outside. That’s a start.

 

[Templeton Peck]

At least the Momentum fools that are too far left to ever do anything other than be electorally sidelined are binned off and shouting from the outside. That’s a start.

Yes it's really helped.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

It certainly has.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

It certainly has.

Indeed, Labour have dropped 13 points in the polls....

 

[BillyDee]

But... he was on Piers Morgan's Life Stories, surely everyone loves him now..?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

That’s more to do with the lunacy of the electorate liking the hard right populist in number ten. If you thinking going more left wing is going to help Labour you are deluded.

 

[Tony Towner]

I think Labour have to hope this lot burn themselves out. I don't think at the moment it matters who the leader is or what wing of the party they come from.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

That’s more to do with the lunacy of the electorate liking the hard right populist in number ten. If you thinking going more left wing is going to help Labour you are deluded.

It was a left wing platform that topped 40% in 2017 unless I was deluded. However, I wasn’t arguing that going more “left wing” will help Labour, I was countering your narrative that “binning” Momentum has helped Labour when clearly it hasn’t. For the Labour Party to properly recover it needs to find a way to balance ideology with pragmatism because much of the ideology of democratic socialism is popular with the electorate when translated into meaningful policy offers...not the chaos of Labour’s 2019 effort which was policy on the hoof.

And how is Boris Johnson “hard right”? He has at times expressed policies/ideas that could be associated with the more extreme of the Tory Party but “hard right” suggests an ideological adherence to a consistent set of policies whereas Boris Johnson is political rather than ideological - he will do and say whatever will win votes. Was it the other Marxist, Groucho, who said something like “these are my opinions, if you don’t like them I have others...” As I know you had supported the Conservative Party in the past, you will probably have supported and voted for a Conservative Party much more ideologically to the right than this version.

As for you lunacy of the electorate comment - it is a lazy analysis and insulting. In a political era where there little quality their choices are limited.