Awful as it was, Thatcherism did transform Britain. Starmerism just promises more of the same. Those who believe the Labour leader will enact a progressive new dawn once inside No 10 are set to be sorely disappointed.

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1. Honk if labour’s deed.

2. Genocide Keith will lose the election from the left

3. What a world.

   IDF to nazi’s

   Labour to tories

4. But we’ve been told for years by the media and untold thousands of labour party supporters that we must get Starmer in despite the lies and U turns on his own policies in the desperate hope that he’ll U turn again and become a progressive, (the kinds of which he’s taken great efforts to purge from Labour entirely) and not be a simple continuation of every tory policy in a different coloured tie

   It’s almost as if the people claiming that were lying through their teeth and knew he would be like this all along.

5. Like him or not, after Rutherglen its looking like a win in Scotland for Labour or at least its theirs to lose . It really shouldn’t be difficult after all the SNP/ Green failure to deliver anything really positive.

6. was this a report from the Dept of the bleedin obvious?

7. Just a heads up to anyone who’s not opened the article. It’s author is Owen Jones so you can already know it will have very little in terms of journalism and quite a lot in terms of twisting events to suit a narrative. Jones has a long held and well known antipathy for Starmer. I’m surprised he’s permitted to write on this subject in the Guardian given his output will not be reliable.

8. Oh sure, let’s all just vote Tory then. Seems ok so far 🙄

9. The red yoons are just another status quo party and anyone who thinks they will do anything other than maintain the status quo is a fool. An optimist but still a fool.

10. It’s a bizarre world we live in but despite Thatcher ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands, economically the UK had to adapt as it came out of the 70s. Subsiding loss making industries that were in direct competition with developing counties was a recipe for disaster. In pure economical sense what Thatcher did was right. How she went about it was not just a tragedy but evil. Had she made sure every single affected family had not only support but retraining for the bread winners and new jobs to go to, she would have been remembered entirely differently. And no, I’m not a Tory or will ever or have you ever voted Tory.

    I do want to see what Starmer will do though. His strategy at the moment is to clear the decks for a new manifesto but he hasn’t made that clear so the public just think he’s a fence sitter.

11. Those of us socialists already have a less than positive view of Starmer, what Jones says is correct (and is something he, and Novara Media, have been consistently saying for some time now). I don’t know what other socialists views are but I’m certainly not voting for him.

    And no, I’m not voting for the fraudulent SNP either…