Pollster offers four choices to replace Starmer – but NONE of them have Labour values
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A new opinion poll has suggested four possible replacements for Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party – but there’s one big problem: none of them offer any hope of returning to the values that made the party great – and that it has abandoned.
Here’s The Guardian:
“Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting would all win a head-to-head leadership contest against Keir Starmer, according to a poll of Labour members.
“Research conducted by Survation for LabourList found that Burnham and Rayner would defeat the prime minister by considerable margins, while Streeting and Miliband would have a slight advantage but within the margin of error.
“The poll also found 54% of members said there should be a new Labour leader in place before the next general election. And 41% of those who backed Starmer for the leadership in 2020 said a new leader should be in place, with 40% wanting him to stay.”
There’s one simple fault in the poll, and the philosophy behind it: it does not question whether any of the proposed replacements would actually represent the politics of most Labour Party members.
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none are Any good…Labour is finished as a political party as far as I am concerned!
It is certainly hard to argue that any of the suggested names would restore Labour to its traditional values. But declaring the party “finished” lets the current leadership off the hook. They rely on people giving up. Better to demand something better – or expose the fact that they can’t provide it.