The Guardian‘s attempt to stiffen up Keir Starmer’s image has gone limp after he was depicted differing with the Tories on such secondary issues as the National Trust and RNLI, and offering supervised toothbrushing of children.

Labour should be campaigning to end the impoverishment of working people by raising wages, lowering prices and building affordable homes – and those are just the issues that offered themselves to This Writer first.

He’s also attacking the Tory government’s Rwanda policy, according to the article. Quite right – it’s nothing but a distraction from what really affects the majority of us – but, again, ditching a silly policy that affects people migrating into the UK won’t do much for those of us who are natives.

In this context, the quoted comments from Starmer’s aides make him look more ridiculous than ready to tackle the Tories.

“We always knew that the final year before an election would be about picking sides on things,” one senior aide explained. “It’s not really about the individual rows: we’re trying to tell more of a story about what the party stands for.”

So it stands for side-issues that don’t help Labour’s core voters? Fine. Thanks for letting us know – we’ll find someone else.

And:

The Labour leader has said little to differentiate himself from the government on issues including transgender rights, public sector pay, the two-child benefit cap and even his position on a Gaza ceasefire.

So on important issues that do affect us, Labour stands with the Tories?

Fine. Thanks for letting us know – we’ll find someone else.

Perhaps most damning is this:

Perhaps the biggest test of his boldness is yet to come: to stand firm on Labour’s commitment to its £28bn green prosperity fund or decide that he would be electorally better off if he backed away. One party insider said: “It’s about fight or flight. We don’t yet know which is his instinct.”

But we do. Starmer is best-known as the Labour leader who has adopted one convenient policy after another, only to abandon them all whenever he thought he could get away with it.

Do we have any reason to doubt that he’ll do the same with this? No.

Fine. Thanks for letting us know – we’ll find someone else.

Source: Keir Starmer keen to show he is not just ducking fights with the Tories | Keir Starmer | The Guardian

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