As huge swathes of the country could never lower themselves to vote Tory and wouldn’t waste a vote on the Libdems then, as the article says, it really IS a choice between voting Labour and getting the Tories ad nauseum. The REAL battle, therefore, is over the politics of the Labour Party.

Founded by the working class to defend themselves from exploitation and responsible for any and all of the protections ever given to workers ever since and crowning achievements like the NHS which genuinely singles the UK out from other first world countries who’s health systems, whilst good, will never be as equitable. But, since these great achievements there has been a battle to move the party ever further to the right. This SHOULD have been settled in the 80s when the right wing went off to form the SDP. It’s failure and subsequent joining with the Liberals was an epiphany for the right, they began a programme of entryism culminating in Blair’s ‘New Labour’ project. Something which, at the time, was hopeful only in the sense that it would, at least, get Labour elected. In that sense it worked. In the sense that it was actually following Labour principles, it failed. Neo Con, Neo Liberal and Hawkish. Illegal wars, cash for honours multiple scandals and their denial of extraordinary rendition and torture brought to light by Craig Murray and their subsequent attempts to frame him for criminal behaviour (still ongoing!) showed them to be as right wing as it gets.

But, unable to keep the membership down Corbyn, a moderate progressive Labour man gets elected. The right disliked him, of course, but the Labour Party proceeded to tear itself to shreds in order to divest themselves of a good and popular leader who had zero scandal attached to him. This did not stop them spending years attempting to smear him before sabotaging the party in the last GE by insisting on changing the party’s referendum position – and Starmer led the charge on this.

To win the next election Starmer thinks all he need do is lead a party called the Labour Party into the election and not cock up too badly for a couple of years beforehand. He’s calling the bluff of the electorate by saying ‘it’s us or the Tories’ but he needs to remember the lesson he’s failed to learn from Scotland. Labour in Scotland were fat and lazy and the party had done nothing for the Scots and in Holyrood had failed to cooperate with SNP (the parliament was set up specifically to be cooperative, a necessity) Initially they were punished for this only in Holyrood with an unprecedented majority (the voting system makes this virtually impossible) and then losing all but one seat at Westminster (and that was only because of a scandal on the SNP candidate they uncovered prior to the polls)

Perhaps a bloody nose at yet another election might make the party realise, I doubt it. They’ll do what the party in Scotland did when they faced heavy defeat the first time – called the electorate stupid (footage from election night at the results) Labour no longer deserves to use the name ‘Labour’ They are the home of the shy Tory and Tory Wets..

Of course, he’s cut fro the same cloth as Blair but without the charisma, or leadership qualities.

I see no purpose to this cult of New Labour 2.0 and there Tory-lite BS ideology as they walk away from being Labour a left-wing socialist party and are just this Blairite mess that I will never vote for or support until they grow up and remember their past true ideology.

Just because you call your self Labour but become Tory-lite might impress these idiots but you will never convince me this is anything other than an insult to all the struggles and hard work of the membership in the past.

Starmer is no Blair he is a week leader and is just destroying the electability of Labour for the next 10 years. Leaving the Tory scum or worse in charge.