Nope – doesn’t need a cult, just a personality and a decent vision would help. I still remember Neil Kinnock being a dead very to win.
Can one have a cult of personality if they don’t have a personality in the first place?
Inb4 Starmer supporters talking about polling results.
“ohh Sir Keir Starmer” kind of works and it worked before…..
Tbh, I’m not sure you could build a *personality* cult around him even if you wanted to.
He needs more than that which is sad.
He doesn’t even need to be pro democracy, he just sits back and watch the Tories fuck up so badly that we have no choice to vote for the brylcreem fascist (I’m voting TUSC)
Still love the way The Guardian does these headlines so it looks as if Starmer wrote the article and referred to himself in the third person.
Thanks for the post, OP. I’ve always wanted to know the views of Guardian letters page correspondent Richard Skues, of Winchmore Hill, London.
No he just needs to not be a vicious raging dishonest cunt on every issue
Hopefully, he doesn’t need to do anything; the Tories have absolutely fucked it.
It’s the elections after that I’m worried about.
At the root of a lot of people’s dislike of benefits, immigration, etc. – all the things where the Tories wear their pointless cruelty like a badge of honour – is economic woes. People don’t feel like they’re being fairly recompensed for the work they put in and don’t like to see money going to something “undeserving”.
Austerity is the root of most of Britain’s problems today. The Tories lied in 2010 when they said there was no money to go around, and even though austerity supposedly died they’re still lying about it today.
Yet when their votes or their wallets are in peril, suddenly they can find billions of pounds for the DUP; for unusable PPE supplied by their friends and donors; for keeping pensions triple-locked; for keeping corporate interests untaxed; for writing off fraudulent loans during Covid; for headline-grabbing initiatives that don’t work; for late, over-budget and under-delivered contracts to the private sector; for the extra government departments, staff, paperwork, bureaucracy and everything else that needed to be set up purely so we could lose yet more billions by inflicting this crippling injury of Brexit on ourselves.
If Starmer’s Labour want to properly rejuvenate this country, and secure themselves more than a single-term in office, they need to stop going along with the Tory lie that Britain is poor. Britain’s *people* are poor; Britain’s *government* is loaded. Get that money back into the hands of people who will spend it in the economy, not the parasites who will hide it in the Caymans.
He is not going to win the next GE. Buckle up for more Tory. At this point Labour are just boring Tory with extra steps.
The conservatives have handed labour the win. So long as Starmer doesn’t do something unthinkably stupid, it will be a walk in the park for them.
Why does it have to be so binary? Corbyn was widely liked (and widely hated) because he stood for things and had passions and likes and dislikes. It doesn’t mean a better candidate has to be the antithesis of this, because that’s equally as shit. Can’t we have someone a bit in the middle, not a cult leader, but not someone with the charisma and like-ability of a lettuce
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Nope – doesn’t need a cult, just a personality and a decent vision would help. I still remember Neil Kinnock being a dead very to win.
Can one have a cult of personality if they don’t have a personality in the first place?
Inb4 Starmer supporters talking about polling results.
“ohh Sir Keir Starmer” kind of works and it worked before…..
Tbh, I’m not sure you could build a *personality* cult around him even if you wanted to.
He needs more than that which is sad.
He doesn’t even need to be pro democracy, he just sits back and watch the Tories fuck up so badly that we have no choice to vote for the brylcreem fascist (I’m voting TUSC)
Still love the way The Guardian does these headlines so it looks as if Starmer wrote the article and referred to himself in the third person.
Oppositions don’t win elections, Governments lose elections.
Thanks for the post, OP. I’ve always wanted to know the views of Guardian letters page correspondent Richard Skues, of Winchmore Hill, London.
No he just needs to not be a vicious raging dishonest cunt on every issue
Hopefully, he doesn’t need to do anything; the Tories have absolutely fucked it.
It’s the elections after that I’m worried about.
At the root of a lot of people’s dislike of benefits, immigration, etc. – all the things where the Tories wear their pointless cruelty like a badge of honour – is economic woes. People don’t feel like they’re being fairly recompensed for the work they put in and don’t like to see money going to something “undeserving”.
Austerity is the root of most of Britain’s problems today. The Tories lied in 2010 when they said there was no money to go around, and even though austerity supposedly died they’re still lying about it today.
Yet when their votes or their wallets are in peril, suddenly they can find billions of pounds for the DUP; for unusable PPE supplied by their friends and donors; for keeping pensions triple-locked; for keeping corporate interests untaxed; for writing off fraudulent loans during Covid; for headline-grabbing initiatives that don’t work; for late, over-budget and under-delivered contracts to the private sector; for the extra government departments, staff, paperwork, bureaucracy and everything else that needed to be set up purely so we could lose yet more billions by inflicting this crippling injury of Brexit on ourselves.
If Starmer’s Labour want to properly rejuvenate this country, and secure themselves more than a single-term in office, they need to stop going along with the Tory lie that Britain is poor. Britain’s *people* are poor; Britain’s *government* is loaded. Get that money back into the hands of people who will spend it in the economy, not the parasites who will hide it in the Caymans.
He is not going to win the next GE. Buckle up for more Tory. At this point Labour are just boring Tory with extra steps.
The conservatives have handed labour the win. So long as Starmer doesn’t do something unthinkably stupid, it will be a walk in the park for them.
Why does it have to be so binary? Corbyn was widely liked (and widely hated) because he stood for things and had passions and likes and dislikes. It doesn’t mean a better candidate has to be the antithesis of this, because that’s equally as shit. Can’t we have someone a bit in the middle, not a cult leader, but not someone with the charisma and like-ability of a lettuce