Will Starmer really sack Annaliese Dodds because he won’t take responsibility for his own record?
It’s being mooted that Keir Starmer is set to sack Annaliese Dodds as Shadow Chancellor because Labour has plummeted in the polls. Isn’t that his fault?
Apparently it will be claimed that Dodds – who has been nigh-on invisible for the last year or so, unlike Starmer – has failed to effectively communicate Labour’s “vision”.
That would be a fair comment if Labour currently had a “vision” to communicate – but Starmer has stamped on all attempts to signpost where Labour is going, instead pursuing a policy of jumping on every bandwagon he can find.
It is Starmer’s Labour that has dropped in the polls; and Starmer himself has also plummeted.
So it is Starmer who should accept the roasting that has been dealt out to him on the social media since the alleged sacking-to-be seeped into public knowledge yesterday (March 28). Here’s a sample:
https://twitter.com/Ben_Jolly_9/status/1376122129343787008
Hmmm the most senior woman in the Shadow Cabinet paying the price for the male leader’s wooden performances you say https://t.co/W9BYBEqtdM
— Stephen Smith (@SteveNickSmith) March 28, 2021
Starmer blamed Corbyn for a terrible Brexit position he engineered. Now he’ll blame Dodds for lack of breakthrough and vision.
You can imagine him being one of those guys who blames his wife if he loses his keys. Any ‘responsibility’ from him is purely gestural & performative.
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) March 28, 2021
RIP Annelise Dodds, you offered the most diluted, homeopathic McDonnellism you thought you could get away with and that was still too radical for the big man, I look forward to you being replaced by a computer that calculates benefit payments based on flag ownership
— wir tanzen jackson hinkel (@LeninsLinguine) March 28, 2021
What’s the betting that this doesn’t happen now, and that Starmer had leaked it just to see whether it would take some of the heat off of him?
It wouldn’t be the first time he has adopted a Tory tactic!
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So because your crap at your job, you want to blame someone else because you’re a joke… Yup sounds morally bankrupt to be the cult of new Labour 2.0 under the great leadership of Starmer who hasn’t found a bandwagon he doesn’t want to jump on or a Tory policy he wants to not abstain on yet!
Maybe these genius at new Labour 2.0 might just ask people why they believe there crap? Nah, to radical a idea I know. Well get the popcorn out this should be funny at least…