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‘Heir to Blair’ Keir Starmer wants Labour to be ‘tough on crime’ again

Keir Starmer seems determined to hammer home to voters – and rebels in his party – that he is a Blairite and always was.

His latest demonstration of this is a return to the old Tony Blair slogan ‘Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’, with a plan to bring back the old ASBOs (Anti-Social Behaviour Orders) under the new title of ‘Respect Orders’.

Apparently the aim is to prevent criminal behaviour, rather than solve it after it has happened – and in this respect, This Writer is very much on board with this policy. If it works!

It was debated on the BBC’s Politics Live, and it’s noticeable that some of the debate suggested that this is an about-turn from attempts by Labour to disown Blairite policies. The problem is that Blair made many policy mistakes – his economics was too close to Toryism, meaning he failed to rectify harmful decisions from the Thatcher and Major years, and the consequences of his warmongering are well-known.

Danny Kruger’s attempt to say that later Labour MPs’ attempts to distance themselves from these disasters persuaded voters that Labour was bad then and continued to be bad are risible, in the light of his own party’s failures (crime is currently at a 20-year high).

Here’s what they all had to say.

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Enjoy Michael Rosen’s list of slogans for a Truss government

Truss: look at this image while reading Michael Rosen’s slogans for her, and you can almost hear her saying them.

This Twitter thread by Michael Rosen is brilliant and should be saved for prosperity:

The others are all connected to the original tweet (it seems) and I don’t want to bore you by repeating it ad nauseum so here are some of the slogans on their own:

“Liz Truss: never knowingly understood.”

“Can we do it? No we can’t.”

“Forget food, eat hope.”

“Sit down and have a nice cup of cold tea.”

“Eat a pigeon.”

“Find out what you most want, then forget it.”

“Be careful what you wish for: you won’t get it.”

“The Nanny State died of hypothermia.”

“The NHS is woke.”

“Whack the woke.”

“Looking to see a doctor? Compare prices first.”

“It’s goodbye to good buys.”

“Your bills are your fault.”

“Thou shalt not heat.”

“We can’t go under it, we can’t go over it and come to think of it: we can’t go through it either.”

“We got Brexit done. Help us get Brexit done.”

“The Northern Ireland Protocol was foisted on us by us.”

“It’s a free press because it’s owned by free millionaires.”

“Please put a penny in the rich man’s hat.”

“If you’re broke, sack your servants.”

“A pay cut is the kindest cut of all.”

“Low pay
is not
no pay.”

“Knit yourself a salary.”

“Slavery wasn’t all bad.”

“Sell your Granny.”

“‘Hope I die before I get old…’ The way forward.”

“Disabled? Go to work on a leg.”

“Not all sewage is bad.”

“One man’s crisis is another man’s party.”

And this one is probably closest to the actual attitude of a Truss administration:

“You deserve it.”

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Starmer adopts new slogan – and Guardian misprint attracts more enthusiastic response

This is terrible news – for Keir Starmer and his fake Labour Party. It has been great fun for the rest of us, though.

It seems Keir Starmer has chosen to demonstrate his devastating unoriginality and electoral death wish by adopting a slogan from Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 electoral campaign – “Stronger Together” – to mark out his latest attempt to rebrand Labour.

It was never going to work.

But what made matters infinitely worse was a typo in a Tweet by The Guardian. The newspaper that made a reputation for misprints that gave it the nickname “Graun” told us all that the new slogan is this:

“Stonger Together.”

Nothing could have attracted more attention – of the wrong kind.

See for yourself:

It goes on and on.

The most common – serious – response was that this is the latest in a long line of focus-group slogans and rebrands from StarmerLabour and he is making himself and the party look ridiculous.

So the net result is the same, whether the Guardian had published the typo or not: Starmer has made Labour look daft Y-E-T A-G-A-I-N.

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The Tories like putting messages on the sides of a bus. But is this one too close to the facts?

Sulk all you like, Boris: it was your idea to put slogans on the sides of a bus – although I doubt you’ll say this kind of imitation is any form of flattery.

Hat tip to whoever created this image and put it on Twitter.

If you’ve been isolating yourself from the news lately, it refers to this story.

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#ANewSlogan for #Labour and #KeirStarmer – but it’s the same old #NewLabour underneath

Empty: Keir Starmer’s slogans are as empty as the promises in the 10 pledges he made when he was trying to be elected Labour leader (he has broken nine of them already).

Keir Starmer isn’t fooling anyone with his new empty slogan.

On the eve of Labour Connected – the party’s virtual conference, he’s replacing the previous empty slogan, “Under New Management” with one making the unlikely claim that he and his party are “A New Leadership”.

The problem is, neither Keir Starmer nor Labour under him have provided any leadership at all.

What are his achievements to date? Hmm…

Approving Boris Johnson’s disastrous Covid-19 strategy.

Agreeing with Boris Johnson that schools should open in September.

Paying off a gang of media-savvy ex-Labour apparatchiks before they could take the party into a court case that Labour was expected to win.

If that is leadership then Boris Johnson is the world’s greatest statesman (ha ha)!

Iain Watson of the BBC reckons the slogan has a lot of work to do:

First, it is designed to contrast favourably with Boris Johnson’s leadership – and build on Sir Keir’s sustained attempt to portray the current government as lacking competence.

Second, it dovetails with Labour’s plan to “introduce” Sir Keir to the country.

Third, it will be deployed to try to eliminate a negative.

While he may not have been fully introduced to the electorate, the good news for Sir Keir Starmer is that his personal ratings are positive.

The bad news for Starmer is that while he has made a relatively positive impression since becoming Labour leader in March, the party has been lagging behind the Conservatives in most polls.

The aim now is to bring the party’s standing closer to Starmer’s.

That’s a lot of work for a three-word falsehood to do.

If you visit the BBC story, you’ll see that among the illustrations is one of Tony Blair unveiling his slogan, “New Labour, New Britain” back in 1994.

They were empty words. New Labour, we soon discovered, was just a continuation of old Tory neoliberalism. Margaret Thatcher later described it as her greatest achievement.

I mention this because there seems to be a clear progression in Starmer’s slogans.

Could it be that he is marching with ponderous predictability, from “Under New Management”, through “A New Leadership”…

… back to “New Labour”?

Source: Labour Party: Starmer aims to build trust with ‘new leadership’ slogan – BBC News

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Just desserts for dangerous new coronavirus slogan [WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE]

Today’s answer from Boris Johnson: C.

Boris Johnson has trotted out a new, vague attempt at advice on how to avoid the coronavirus.

It is – of course – utter bilge:

The idea seems to be that we should be going back to work and trying to keep to the two-metre social distancing rule, if it doesn’t get in the way of big business making a profit.

Of course, nobody has been fooled by it. Check out the responses:

Yes indeed, it might as well say

But most people were slightly more scathing:

Fans of the comic 2000AD should enjoy this one:

(Who’s Simon Price? Those words were by Pat Mills.)

I’m working up to a response that isn’t an image. Irvine Welsh has replied to Johnson in his own inimitable way:

As I write this, the UK is awaiting a (recorded) speech by Boris Johnson in which he is expected to announce measures that will ease the lockdown.

Here’s the problem with that, plus yet another comment on Johnson:

That’s right: the UK is currently the deadliest country in the world for coronavirus deaths.

It is insanity to even consider easing the lockdown.

That’s why people are commenting on Johnson in ways like these.

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It’s all falling apart for Theresa May

Even the backdrop fell to pieces during Theresa May’s conference speech.

The ‘F’ fell off the slogan behind her. changing it from “A country that works for everyone” to “A country that works OR everyone”.

It rendered the line meaningless but is symbolic of a speech in which Mrs May’s voice cracked dozens of times and which she must have been delighted to have finished.

The ‘E’ subsequently fell off the other end of the slogan’s bottom line, after Mrs May had (mercifully) stopped talking.

What a disaster.

ADDITIONAL: I just found this image on Facebook, which sums up the whole fiasco:

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