Effective at maintaining the status quo for the powerful. That’s the only reason he is championed as effective.
You can want the rich to pay their fair share without burrowing into populism. At the moment what are they offering for an average person other than a red rosette?
Absolutely not. It’s completely disingenuous to say just because Corbyn advocated for a specific policy then that policy is no longer workable due to 2019. He had problems that extended far beyond his manifesto.
UK moves from centre right to centre left fairly predictably. Thankfully the hard right or left never get the popular vote.
Starmer seems quite boring but effective. I don’t have a problem with that. Popularism is much more dangerous.
Effective at maintaining the status quo for the powerful. That’s the only reason he is championed as effective.
You can want the rich to pay their fair share without burrowing into populism. At the moment what are they offering for an average person other than a red rosette?
Well the Labour party tried that in 2019 with the worst results ever, you suggest a repeat?
Absolutely not. It’s completely disingenuous to say just because Corbyn advocated for a specific policy then that policy is no longer workable due to 2019. He had problems that extended far beyond his manifesto.
And his problems were that he and his cohort were too far left to get elected.
Same as Kinnock.
Nothing more than centre left is electable, evidenced by the election results of the last hundred years.
Sure if you believe the Tory tabloid attack lines. Most of his domestic policy was mild social democratic thought.
He got destroyed by the media and not for policy reasons.
Not being destroyed by the media is the job of political leaders…
Well yeah, that’s why I don’t think he was very good.
But to say that a more media savvy yet actually principled leader would never work is just wrong, it’s never been tried.
Gordon Brown was more principled than Blair, but lacked the media savviness. Remember the ‘bigot’ open mic gaff 💀