>John McTernan, a strategist and former Labour advisor, said Sir Keir’s column was designed to reassure former Tory voters who were intending to vote Labour at the next general election but described the comment as “utterly unnecessary”.
>”The Tories who have decided to vote Labour have decided to vote Labour,” he told Good Morning Scotland.
>”I think it was an unnecessary article by Keir and an unnecessary nod to Thatcher. I don’t think a Labour leader wanting to be prime minister needs to bend the knee to anybody in the Tory party.”
I feel the same. Labour is ways ahead in polls, 2019 tory voters are already switching to Labour – the article he wrote for the telegraph was unnecessary, what difference did it make? And looking at the telegraph readers comments on that article, they didn’t seem to care what he was saying anyway.
The 25%ish block of Tory voters in current polling are core tory voters, nothing Starmer says or does will change their mind.
Thatcher fan boy, anti strike, traditional Labour member expulsion tyrant, branch office jocks humiliation regular, pro Brexit, pro IDF mass child murder, right wing business donor receiver, pro NHS private finance, wins over tory donors, Rupert Murdoch boot licker, flip flop grifter and…sorry, this is the guy who will ” REPLACE ” the tories ???
Jesus, he’s even looking us all in the eye and telling us straight that there will be no money spent, no reversal of tory pain and business as usual.
But I’m very sure, as always, randomonium etc. will soon explain in detail why it’s vital we all vote for them. Any minute now.
When you’ve got John *fucking* McTernan telling the Labourite fanbois on here that it was a bad idea, it was a fucking bad idea.
Bye bye Labour’s jump in the Scottish polls.
This is Kier trying to make a tactical play that he doesn’t need to do. He’s going against a zombie government that’s wholly unpopular. He doesn’t need to appeal to Tory voters who idealise Thatcher. He’s gonna pull in the centrists. The more he alienates the actual labour supports, the further right he moves, he’s just leaving vacuums of influence in his wake. If he had another left wing party which was a bit more effective (like if the Greens found someone highly electable) he’d be in real trouble but he doesn’t. But we do have alternatives in Scotland and he’ll definitely lose out on votes saying shit like this.
Not to a third to a quarter of Scots, who voted for her.
“Every moment of meaningful change in modern British politics begins with the realisation that politics must act in service of the British people, rather than dictating to them,” Sir Keir wrote.
“Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism.”
“Tony Blair reimagined a stale, outdated Labour Party into one that could seize the optimism of the late 90s.
“A century ago, Clement Attlee wrote that Labour must be a party of duty and patriotism, not abstract theory.”
This is what he actually said.
3 articles in 2 days I’ve seen trying to ruffle some feathers with misrepresentations and misleading headlines.
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>John McTernan, a strategist and former Labour advisor, said Sir Keir’s column was designed to reassure former Tory voters who were intending to vote Labour at the next general election but described the comment as “utterly unnecessary”.
>”The Tories who have decided to vote Labour have decided to vote Labour,” he told Good Morning Scotland.
>”I think it was an unnecessary article by Keir and an unnecessary nod to Thatcher. I don’t think a Labour leader wanting to be prime minister needs to bend the knee to anybody in the Tory party.”
I feel the same. Labour is ways ahead in polls, 2019 tory voters are already switching to Labour – the article he wrote for the telegraph was unnecessary, what difference did it make? And looking at the telegraph readers comments on that article, they didn’t seem to care what he was saying anyway.
The 25%ish block of Tory voters in current polling are core tory voters, nothing Starmer says or does will change their mind.
Thatcher fan boy, anti strike, traditional Labour member expulsion tyrant, branch office jocks humiliation regular, pro Brexit, pro IDF mass child murder, right wing business donor receiver, pro NHS private finance, wins over tory donors, Rupert Murdoch boot licker, flip flop grifter and…sorry, this is the guy who will ” REPLACE ” the tories ???
Jesus, he’s even looking us all in the eye and telling us straight that there will be no money spent, no reversal of tory pain and business as usual.
But I’m very sure, as always, randomonium etc. will soon explain in detail why it’s vital we all vote for them. Any minute now.
When you’ve got John *fucking* McTernan telling the Labourite fanbois on here that it was a bad idea, it was a fucking bad idea.
Bye bye Labour’s jump in the Scottish polls.
This is Kier trying to make a tactical play that he doesn’t need to do. He’s going against a zombie government that’s wholly unpopular. He doesn’t need to appeal to Tory voters who idealise Thatcher. He’s gonna pull in the centrists. The more he alienates the actual labour supports, the further right he moves, he’s just leaving vacuums of influence in his wake. If he had another left wing party which was a bit more effective (like if the Greens found someone highly electable) he’d be in real trouble but he doesn’t. But we do have alternatives in Scotland and he’ll definitely lose out on votes saying shit like this.
Not to a third to a quarter of Scots, who voted for her.
“Every moment of meaningful change in modern British politics begins with the realisation that politics must act in service of the British people, rather than dictating to them,” Sir Keir wrote.
“Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism.”
“Tony Blair reimagined a stale, outdated Labour Party into one that could seize the optimism of the late 90s.
“A century ago, Clement Attlee wrote that Labour must be a party of duty and patriotism, not abstract theory.”
This is what he actually said.
3 articles in 2 days I’ve seen trying to ruffle some feathers with misrepresentations and misleading headlines.