I'd be interested to know from some of his more right wing critics on here what he could do. Certainly things I can think of which would turn my opinion on him.
I'm probably the wrong one to ask because I'm very unlikely to vote Labour and even less so for Starmer who I don't trust and don't like - sneering sniveling little scrote and still remember how he said the word Coventry that irritated me more than it should, anyway I digress...
What he could and should do, and what all leaders should do is quite simple. There is no great science, most of us want the same things and it's about how they are achieved, so I think we simply need to see some progress. Off the top of my head a few thoughts:
Fund the NHS properly and get more nurses
Bring back some order, recruit more police and dont have them wasting their time on silly laws that don't allow common sense
Low interest rates, low taxes, plenty of jobs
Fill the pot holes on the roads,
Give us a clean, reliable on time train service where we can get a seat without taking out a mortgage
Build more houses and get people off the streets
Deal with drug dealers and get the vermin off our streets for good
Find a way of controlling immigration and despite the boats only being a small percentage, stop those and keep the noise down
Make sure we have options for people on low or disability income where they don't need to rely on foodbanks, but don't give free passes to those who are able to play the system and take take take without contributing to society
Be honest, if you can't deliver it, say why and what you propose to change rather than lying and then achieving nothing
None of that is groundbreaking, I doubt may would disagree with the sentiment of the above (although I'm sure a few will want to pick some holes in it), but the point is, we need to see some progress to a few of those type things because that's (imo) a few off the top of my head things the public want to see.
Note I've not mentioned big finance, international trade, nuclear or defence spend, education or any other big topics that are also important, but no government in my lifetime has actually tried to progress some of the basic needs of the electorate. If they get on top of those, then they can be looking at the big stuff in the background that the average Joe doesn't need to be burdened with.
I do, but equally I don't expect it to happen. Realistically in this parliament, what do you believe he can or will deliver on?
I have no faith in him to do anything substantial, so similar position to you.
Even just to be on the path of progress would be good, if you could see some things that will come to fruition given time, but there just 'seems to be' no appetite to change anything.
I'll put you down as a maybe then.
To be fair the way he said ‘Coventry’ bothered me as well. He’s got a special talent for pissing people off without trying.
Cool, but it's not corruption is it? Incompetent estate agent, Yeah. Politician that's gonna be called on it because they've crowed for opposition folks to resign in the past or whatever. Fair cop.
Do you ever do anything other than just waffle complete shite on here and post gifs?
I know it's only £945, but you cannot have the appearance of one rule for them and another for us.
I think Reeves should go; if you're a government minister you have to be on top of this kind of thing, and if you're elected on precisely that promise, even more so.
Starmer has an unerring ability to take the wrong side on every argument.
Don't get me wrong, compared to the billions of corruption that the Tories allowed, the completely bent Boris, and Farage's obvious double dealings on his house and elsewhere, a genuinely clean politics would terrify the right. They're even worse.
I think Reeves should go; if you're a government minister you have to be on top of this kind of thing, and if you're elected on precisely that promise, even more so.
Starmer has an unerring ability to take the wrong side on every argument.
Don't get me wrong, compared to the billions of corruption that the Tories allowed, the completely bent Boris, and Farage's obvious double dealings on his house and elsewhere, a genuinely clean politics would terrify the right. They're even worse.
What is this reference to Coventry?And why does it not include the word 'City',directly afterwards?
How you can compare to Rayner is beyond me. She clearly tried to exploit a system and got found out. She could never have survived.
Odd how these Labour politicians have incompetent estate agents and solicitors.
Bit of crackpot video but the sentiment shows that Labour is on course to suffer the same fate as the Tories at the next election.
It’s electoral coalition has been a delicate between the blue-collar working class and metropolitan liberals in big cities, Brexit nearly broke it and now Labour is being outflanked by everyone and it’s polling shows that right now, it’s a carcass being picked at by the Greens, Reform, LD an Tory. Where does it begin to turn the tide? To your question earlier in the thread, probably start with ‘stopping the boats’. Welfare reform/spending cuts and being tough on crime is off the table… It’s looking v bad for Labour.
Labour’s decline has been in the reckoning for while. To tell a personal story… Back at uni, I had seminars with a Labour councillor who is now doing something at the Labour HQ (a career politician). She was 100% a ‘champagne socialist’ whose dislike for rich people was much stronger than their desire to help poor people.
For context, she was from Harrogate and called Coventry a ‘shithole’ and in the many times we clashed, her focus was v much of liberal pet projects rather than bread and butter issues of the working class. At this time, I was an enthusiastic Corbynista and she hated him so that was a flashpoint in our seminars.
Debating people like her and seeing the capture of the Labour Party by middle-class Oxbridge grads marked the beginning of my disillusionment with the ‘left’.
The narrative is:
Labour politician = incompetent advisors
Tory politician = corrupt advisors
Oh yes the guy in the video is a bit weird, but it's the first one I found when searching for the quote from Starmer.
I've had no real dealings with the Labour Party (aside from the relative of a personal friend aspiring to be an MP), but obviously a lot more in a trade union context. My experience of doing that personally and looking at things as a whole is that these are the organisations fighting the hardest to improve things for working people, despite all the legal handicaps successive governments have imposed upon them. The party was founded to be the political wing of the union movement. It's so far removed from that now as to be unrecognisable. Ultimately where do unions get their income from? Members' subs. Who are the members? Working people. I haven't spoken with my former union colleagues in a few years now but there was wide disillusionment with Labour even then.
I was also very much pro-Corbyn and pro-Bernie Sanders at that time, and a great 'what if' for me is what if those two had got in at the same time. I think (and I expect many to disagree) that both countries would be much better off than they are now.
Dodged a massive bullet not being successful in Corbyn's time, he was dangerous as much as incompetent imo. The only one thing I will give him over other politicians is that he was unwavering in what he believed in and a man of (his) principles, albeit I disagreed with almost everything he stood for.
His 2017 manifesto was the best Labour manifesto of my (voting) lifetime in my opinion and his vote share was a fair bit higher than Starmer's. By 2019 however, he had lost the plot mostly over his Brexit position conflicting with that of the party membership overall.
As for Bernie Sanders however, giving all people in the US access to healthcare free at the point of use would have been transformative for them. Instead, they elected a guy who's restricting that access even further and using the office to enrich himself.
What is the minimum just for clarity?Well at least it could be worse. Next door from here in Slovakia, if you run for the bus you could get a fine from next year. Maximum 6kmph allowed for walking.
Slovakia adopts speed limit for pedestrians
Power walking will soon be illegal in Slovakia as law changes to prevent sidewalk accidents.www.politico.eu
Not sure, there seems to be some uncertainty whether this is for pedestrians or just those sharks on e-scooters etc.
Regardless, slow walking people who hog the path should be punished.