Humiliation for centrists: Starmer falls nine points behind Tories when they said he’d be 20 ahead

Last Updated: August 6, 2020By Tags: , , , , , , ,

Keir the clueless: he genuinely doesn’t know what he is doing wrong.

It has all gone horribly wrong for the Labour centrists and their figurehead Keir Starmer.

His plan to fool left-wing, traditional Labour supporters into electing him as leader and then push them out of the party succeeded a treat.

The problem is, the rest of his strategy – to ditch the left-wing policies he used to woo those voters as no longer needed, replace them with centrist (read right-wing/sub-Tory) policies and win support from Lib Dem/Tory voters – has failed utterly.

In what should be his honeymoon period, Starmer’s new New Labour has slumped in the latest Survation poll (Survation is currently the most reliable opinion pollster) to a level almost as low as that which his followers are believed to have engineered for Jeremy Corbyn in last year’s general election.

But that outcome was based on lies and this is due to Starmer’s actual behaviour.

It will fall lower, but the ridicule from critics on the left is already bad enough:

https://twitter.com/NeverStarmer/status/1290945839301525505

Crude though it may be, Cornish Damo has a point, I think.

Neither Starmer nor his “centrist” supporters will accept it for a while – but there’s plenty of time until the next general election.

Once he’s had a few local defeats, I reckon the rank-and-file members will be clamouring for a return to Corbyn-style policies…

And the removal of “centrism” from Labour altogether. We’ve heard the “broad church” arguments; the right-wingers need to remember that, as a rule, people don’t start fights with fellow members of the same church.

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8 Comments

  1. dsbacon2017 August 6, 2020 at 11:51 am - Reply

    When did the UK last elect a left wing government?

  2. Jed Bland August 6, 2020 at 12:23 pm - Reply

    Seems like the plan is working

  3. kevin strong August 6, 2020 at 12:55 pm - Reply

    I see Opininium has Sir Keir 4 points ahead of Johnson in the PM stakes. Good eh. Edit this out no doubt. Cant take the heat Ah well!!

    • Mike Sivier August 6, 2020 at 7:00 pm - Reply

      Who can’t take the heat?

      And why are you giving credence to Opinium, which has always been an outlier among pollsters?

  4. Jeffrey Davies August 6, 2020 at 4:10 pm - Reply

    Trouble is this kind of greedie oink will not give in their skin is rhino thick they culled the real labour people’s and taking it back they won’t allow it rather they’d sink the party

  5. I wish people would stop using this stupid term ‘centrist’/’centrism’ – the OED definition not what these unintelligent people mean. So don’t use it. No wonder the left here in the UK and most of Europe are simply useless ‘The Useless Left’

    • Mike Sivier August 6, 2020 at 6:59 pm - Reply

      You agree with me that so-called centrists are in fact right-wingers trying to hide their true political allegiances, then?

      I don’t understand why you go on from this justified criticism of people who pervert language to attack the Left, though.

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