Labour has hit a new low in the polls and Keir Starmer can’t blame anybody but himself
Keir Starmer: both the cause and the symptom of Labour’s electoral problems.
More than a year after Jeremy Corbyn handed over the Labour leadership to Keir Starmer, the party has fallen to a new low in the opinion polls, 18 points behind the Conservatives.
The situation is almost the exact opposite of what so-called ‘centrists’ said would happen with “Anybody But Corbyn” as leader; they promised a 20-point lead.
So, what went wrong?
The new poll, conducted by YouGov and released on Saturday, had Labour on just 28 per cent – down four points on Jeremy Corbyn’s disastrous 2019 general election result, and down 12 points on his 2017 result.
The opposition leader was publicly accused by one of his MPs [Ian Lavery] of lacking substance and being “invisible” as Labour continued to reel from a series of disappointing elections.
The new front bench team has so far failed to break the narrative that the party does not have distinctive policies or have fixed principles.
If this is the start of a leadership bid by Lavery, This Writer reckons it will be welcomed by the party membership and by voters.
Of course, the poll is be Tory-run YouGov and is therefore suspect. We’ll have to see what Survation has to say before we can be sure.
As far as comments are concerned, strangely I can’t find it at the moment but someone put a satirical remark on Twitter to the effect that, if leftists had only refrained from calling him “Keith”, Labour might be only 16 points behind.
… oh, and among working class voters, that’s a whopping thirty-six points behind:
Starmer THIRTY-SIX points behind Tories among working-class voters – and FIFTY-THREE among working-class leavers https://t.co/s7Teg44u3B
— The SKWAWKBOX (@skwawkbox) May 22, 2021
It doesn’t matter whether we call him Keir or Keith; his name is Mud.
Get rid of him, Labour. We all deserve better. And it won’t come from the centre or the right.
Source: Labour falls to new poll low 18 points behind the Tories | The Independent
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Keir Starmer represents a small intensely driven group of Blairites and Israel apologists. Their actions are systematically destroying the Labour Party and until a reemergence of proper socialist values flourishes the rot will be irreversible. Bring back Corbyn