The left is only able to demand that an apparently imminent Labour government be bolder in office because Starmer has got the party to the brink of victory – and has done it by doing the very things they opposed.

Never have I 'this’ed so hard.

    • apis@beehaw.org
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      That Keirbot is weirdly hot. Will be holding you responsible if it, or a Keirbot army, features in some bizarre sex dream tonight.

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        I know right? I suspect Keir Starmer would be much more popular if he was as weirdly hot as Keirbot.

        Now there’s a sentence I never thought I would say/type.

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          A whole week later and no bizarre dreams involving the Keirbot army, nor anything related to same.

          Which ombudsman do I go to here about this complaint?

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    Guardian proving once again that if the lib dems had a chance in hell, the editorial line would be to shit all over Labour in a heartbeat.

    They whine more about lefties than the daily mail

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    It seems a failing, until you remember Theresa May – fighting what was the worst campaign in living memory, before Rishi Sunak asked her to hold his beer – threw away a 20-point poll lead in 2017 by proposing a social care policy that instantly became the “dementia tax”.

    Yet now the Conservatives are falling apart, reduced to warning of a Labour “supermajority” – misusing the term that does not, as Grant Shapps seems to think, mean “a really big majority”, but one capable of overriding a constitutional veto – as they plead with the voters for mercy.

    History suggests the Lib Dems do best when disaffected Tory voters feel safe casting a ballot that will put a Labour prime minister in Downing Street.

    Tactical voting depends, yes, on collective loathing of the Tories, but also a Labour alternative palatable to the broadest possible number: that rarely means a leader who stirs the passions of the party faithful.

    If he gets his mandate, he could use it as blanket permission to pursue a range of serious policy shifts about which he stayed mum during the campaign – whether on investment in infrastructure and public services or resetting the relationship with the European Union – all in the name of growing the economy.

    But, given the scale of the task that will confront the next government – a social fabric that lies in tatters, a weak economy, ailing public services and a country that feels broken – it is no guide for how that power should be used.


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