Yesterday, while waiting at East Surrey hospital for a session with a Turkish occupational therapist needed for an operation that was performed by an Asian surgeon, I read about "the incalculable damage" caused by immigrants.
WTF is Starmer doing? He's on public record defending immigration a few years back, and now doing his damnedest to alienate his own supporters while gaining none on the Right.
Exactly. Yougov polling yesterday showed that only 27% of labour voters think they are doing a good job on immigration. Guess what percentage of reform voters think so. Precisely 0%. Zero.
No one votes labour to go hard on immigration. The strategists need sacking. Instead of entirely conceding the argument to the far-right, offer an alternative. Fix the distribution of resources that leads people to so easily scapegoat migrants.
The problem is Keir Starmer is losing trust..fast. He was elected to be the grown-up, the antidote to years of austerity and Tory chaos from a Tory party that had gone off the rails. It felt like our last hope in a world where the global Far Right is on the rise.
I think it was a mistake to purge those MPs further to the Left or prevent certain Labour candidates running at all and especially move towards Blue Labour. It’s not just about getting control of the party. Keir Starmer is a relatively inexperienced politician really as he was a Lawyer. Some of the MPs further to the Left have years of experience and would know how to communicate with the very people they are alienating, suggest ways to bring the party back together. Keir Starmer clearly doesn’t know how to and probably doesn’t want to. It betrays a lack of confidence. Advisors like Morgan McSweeney aren’t elected yet they seem to have way too much influence.
For me it shows Labour is no longer a “broadchurch” they’re afraid to be too well…Labour. Now we have terms bandied about like “centre-left” or “hard-left” and Blue Labour is a thing. I voted Labour for years and nobody talked about Blue Labour before. It’s like the Tories calling themselves Red Tories, we have weirdly un-Labour-like anti-immigrant rhetoric, Labour favouring giving interviews to right wing papers. Anything but communicate with Labour voters. I even got told by a Liberal that Labour is “still a Left wing party”. Nobody seems to be sure.
I’m sure Labour MPs are getting increasingly jumpy. This strategy of Starmer’s doesn’t seem to include communicating what he’s up to. I see a lot of journalists trying to guess. Why are we guessing? How is he going to win this trust back?
I am an older guy. My immediate thought was this is a rehash of Enoch Powell.
Powell was sacked by Edward Heath from his shadow cabinet due to his speech.
Hard to understand why Labour think a return to Powell is a good thing. Pound shop Farage behaviour.
You state the case far better than I could.
Yesterday, while waiting at East Surrey hospital for a session with a Turkish occupational therapist needed for an operation that was performed by an Asian surgeon, I read about "the incalculable damage" caused by immigrants.
WTF is Starmer doing? He's on public record defending immigration a few years back, and now doing his damnedest to alienate his own supporters while gaining none on the Right.
Exactly. Yougov polling yesterday showed that only 27% of labour voters think they are doing a good job on immigration. Guess what percentage of reform voters think so. Precisely 0%. Zero.
No one votes labour to go hard on immigration. The strategists need sacking. Instead of entirely conceding the argument to the far-right, offer an alternative. Fix the distribution of resources that leads people to so easily scapegoat migrants.
That lurch to the left is coming any day now…
The problem is Keir Starmer is losing trust..fast. He was elected to be the grown-up, the antidote to years of austerity and Tory chaos from a Tory party that had gone off the rails. It felt like our last hope in a world where the global Far Right is on the rise.
I think it was a mistake to purge those MPs further to the Left or prevent certain Labour candidates running at all and especially move towards Blue Labour. It’s not just about getting control of the party. Keir Starmer is a relatively inexperienced politician really as he was a Lawyer. Some of the MPs further to the Left have years of experience and would know how to communicate with the very people they are alienating, suggest ways to bring the party back together. Keir Starmer clearly doesn’t know how to and probably doesn’t want to. It betrays a lack of confidence. Advisors like Morgan McSweeney aren’t elected yet they seem to have way too much influence.
For me it shows Labour is no longer a “broadchurch” they’re afraid to be too well…Labour. Now we have terms bandied about like “centre-left” or “hard-left” and Blue Labour is a thing. I voted Labour for years and nobody talked about Blue Labour before. It’s like the Tories calling themselves Red Tories, we have weirdly un-Labour-like anti-immigrant rhetoric, Labour favouring giving interviews to right wing papers. Anything but communicate with Labour voters. I even got told by a Liberal that Labour is “still a Left wing party”. Nobody seems to be sure.
I’m sure Labour MPs are getting increasingly jumpy. This strategy of Starmer’s doesn’t seem to include communicating what he’s up to. I see a lot of journalists trying to guess. Why are we guessing? How is he going to win this trust back?