Unexpected Labour poll lead is because Johnson lost ground – Starmer is still rubbish

Last Updated: September 11, 2021By Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Keir Starmer: he was wrong and can’t admit it. The best he can do is quit but he’ll never willingly release the power he has, even if it is only power to attack his own party members.

The social media were full of this yesterday:

That’s right. Keir Starmer’s Labour was said to be ahead of Boris Johnson’s Conservatives for the first time since January, and Starmer’s fan club was crowing about it.

But the figures don’t justify the celebration.

A pithy analysis from James Foster, there. Here’s some more detail – and I’ll pick out the most important elements:

“Labour hasn’t crept into the lead, the Tories have snuck in behind them.”

“Labour’s popularity hasn’t grown in any real sense.

“The Tory polling lead was softer than it appeared and this is because the Tory narrative has never been seriously contested and there has been no functioning opposition.”

And there is still no functioning opposition, is what they’re saying here.

“Perhaps [the Tories] never were that popular… just… preferable to Starmer’s godawful leadership.

“Starmer has never presented an alternative for people to vote for.

“The two parties are [now] together less popular than they were against all the other available alternatives.”

“This isn’t good for Labour.”

“Starmer’s team will likely see it as a vindication of their present “strategy”, even though it absolutely isn’t.”

And they did too. Fortunately, we have real people on the social media to bring the debate back down to Earth:

https://twitter.com/RedCollectiveUK/status/1436257309219594242

Brutal comment about Labour’s care policy there.

It wasn’t long until “slight media pressure” did turn Starmer into a “gibbering wreck” either – but we’ll discuss that below.

Here’s what people really think:

And here’s a good reason. In fact, looking at Starmer’s performance failure in his interview with Beth Rigby, it will be good to compare what happened – and what was said about it – with what centrist mainstream media reporters said about Starmer after he was elected Labour leader.

The comparison shows up the centrist melts badly.

https://twitter.com/thistle8blower/status/1436277870888894465

Had enough?

So has the British public – of Starmer and of his cult followers, both in the Labour party, the newspapers and television.

The issue that made Starmer choke in the Beth Rigby interview was reform of social care – causing deep confusion among Labour supporters who know that the party had devised a plan for a workable National Care Service along the same lines as the NHS.

Starmer could have – and should have – pushed it down Ms Rigby’s throat.

Andy Burnham knows the score:

https://twitter.com/liamyoung/status/1436259720814374931

So do former MPs like Thelma Walker. But This Writer made the problem clear to her:

It’s true – look:

Apparently he has now suggested some weak-ass idea about taxing landlords.

Meanwhile, the creeps with whom Starmer has surrounded himself in preference to honest, genuine socialist politicians (he’s busy smearing them as anti-Semites, remember) are lining up to line their pockets…

… or they are accepting jobs from the Tories:

And Starmer is still attacking his own – although his latest unjust assault against Young Labour chair Jess Barnard has collapsed after she called in her lawyers.

Skwawkbox explains what happened:

On Friday, Labour sent an email to Young Labour chair Jess Barnard, warning her that she was under investigation for supposedly ‘hostile’ language – when Barnard had in fact been ‘challenging transphobia’. The party quickly wilted under legal threat from her legal representatives and ‘rescinded’ the letter with a grovelling apology, claiming it had been sent ‘in error’.

The letter had been sent to Ms Barnard, who has made no secret of the mental stress she has suffered because of a series of vicious character attacks on her and Young Labour with no hint of support for her from the party’s leadership, at 1am on Friday.

Friday was World Suicide Prevention Day.

This is the state of the Labour leadership now.

This is Labour under Starmer.

He is the reason Labour is not popular – and no amount of “fluffing” by his client journalists will ever make him or his cronies acceptable to the public.

He is as Brian Tweedale described him on Twitter:

“What makes Keir Starmer so disappointing, is that unlike his predecessor, who gave supporters hope, he seems hell-bent on crushing it.”

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2 Comments

  1. beastrabban September 11, 2021 at 2:30 pm - Reply

    Dear Lord it’s sickening to see the press, and the supposedly left-wing press fawn over Starmer as if he’s some kind of centrist new messiah. Positive proof that you cannot trust a word these shills and hack propagandists utter or write.

  2. Jeffrey Davies September 11, 2021 at 3:40 pm - Reply

    And if you look at ugov it’s a Tory thing ops putting stammer the spammer first makes a mockery of it but ugov voting him Infront that keep him in power they hope

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