As much as I loathe starmer I’m not sure there’s anyone in labour who’s in a position to make a play to PM who I like more ATM.
No wonder orwell wrote “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever”
To be specific, he wrote this as the government of 1984 to the main character, trying to convince him to give up (which he does). This wasn’t him saying this of real life directly at least, though he was obviously inspired by the real world. This is what the government wanted him to believe though, not reality necessarily. Assuming they’re correct is how they get you to give up.
What Labour needs right now is their own Liz Truss
The last thing any of us need is another Liz Truss
That’s what’s going to happen if they replace Starmer. A series of nothing candidates that will sink Labour further in the polls
They could try an actual socialist, like Labour pre- Blair used to have.
The difficulty there though is finding one within the neo-liberal pro-capitalism modern Labour party…
They tried that and he was crushed by the Party aparachiks and press
True that.
Funny how despite great interest among the population that got shot down…
Corbyn won the 2015 party leadership election to succeed him. The Labour Party’s membership increased sharply, both during the leadership campaign and following his election.[3]
After Labour MPs sought to remove him in 2016 through a leadership challenge, he won a second leadership contest against Owen Smith. In the 2017 general election, Corbyn led Labour to increase its vote share by 10 percentage points to 40 per cent, their largest rise since the 1945 general election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn
Following the short campaign, Labour again finished as the second largest party in parliament but surprised many pundits by increasing their share of the popular vote to 40%, resulting in a net gain of 30 seats and a hung parliament. Although Labour started the campaign as far as 20 points behind, it defied expectations by gaining 40% of the vote, its greatest share since 2001. It was the first time Labour had made a net gain of seats since 1997, and the party’s 9.6% increase in vote share was its largest in a single general election since 1945.[113][114] This has partly been attributed to the popularity of its 2017 Manifesto that promised to scrap tuition fees, address public sector pay, make housing more affordable, end austerity, nationalise the railways and provide school students with free lunches.[115][116][117]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_leadership_of_Jeremy_Corbyn
Funny how despite great interest among the population that got shot down…
Literally lost two elections.
Popular on twitter != electorally viable.
There are no easy or quick solutions. It took 45 years of smashing shit up for neo-libs to get us to this point. It’ll take a fuck load longer than 2 years to fix it. This is why pyschcodrama is pointless, and changing who is PM does not change the material conditions we currently exist in.
I support a wealth tax, but an extra 30-ish billion in tax revenue isn’t going to touch the sides when we spend around 1,200 billion a year; it’s less than 3%. The benefit of a wealth tax is longer term.
Meaningful spending will either require massive borrowing - which increases interest rates and worsens wealth inequality as its the rich who loan the money in the first place - or printing money, which increases inflation, and worsens inequality.
Right now we’re relatively insulated from Trump’s FAFO with Iran due to the energy price cap, etc, but people are already shitting their pants at how petrol prices have increased, whilst other countries are already rationing.
People are so (rightfully) jaded, and there is no appetite in the country for “pain today for a better tomorrow”.
This is a hard problem to fix, and is much bigger than whoever the PM is.
Neo liberals are ruining the west in general - and that includes conservatives.
They don’t break up monopolies, they don’t punish white collar crime, they don’t actually try to uphold free market principles, they make public services painfully expensive and ineffective with “New Public Management” - then suggest selling off the infrastructure for cheap to their friends friends when said system inevitably breaks under it’s own weight, to form even more monopolies while claiming free market has won once again.
These people are grifters. It’s griftonomics, political edition.
Exactly - greed is good, apparently.
