I'm not going out of my way to defend him as I find him a bit annoying. But in the social media age, that’s how plenty of people make a living. If he was a photographer or chef, he might have a YouTube channel on those topics. But he’s a political journalist so that’s what he has a channel about. As a freelancer, I guess he wants to have a spread of income streams. Even socialists need to look after the bottom line.
He may influence 200,000 votes in the GE. That's what? 1% per constituency? It may fill the Macarana stadium but it won't win a seat.
Socialists you say?I'm not going out of my way to defend him as I find him a bit annoying. But in the social media age, that’s how plenty of people make a living. If he was a photographer or chef, he might have a YouTube channel on those topics. But he’s a political journalist so that’s what he has a channel about. As a freelancer, I guess he wants to have a spread of income streams. Even socialists need to look after the bottom line.
That’s not my recollection at all. He cosied up to Murdoch and got The Sun on his side. I didn’t blame him. Thought it rather astute, in fact. He even had Thatcher offering guarded praise. Hence New Labour rather than same old Labour.But not actual Momentum, I hope
Look, none of us know what Starmzy will be like. We can only guess and I'm bored with that.
Before Blair got in he was painted as weak Bambi, in thrall to the unions and the looney left.
Turns out that not being a **** and largely going with what you think is right rather than what may be gammon-proof is nearly all of what is required.
A PM can't act like a dictator, and it is a lot about who on his own side he can work with and who he can safely put on ignore. Looks like this Owen twit has saved Starmer the trouble of defenestrating him.
Absolutely 100% this.
But he’s been all over the place through his political career. No one knows what he’s about. Remember the platform he stood on to be elected as leader? He’s renounced nearly all of it. And despite his promise to embrace all sides of the party, he’s actually been pretty ruthless in removing or silencing those on the left in the party. I’m not saying I don’t understand why he’s done this. But he’s an extremely unreliable character IMO.
Of course I haven't. Why would I?
Again, pure ego. Which is why I would be a shite columnist
In (our current) real world, with FPTP, there is no room for such 'dreaming'. It simply doesn't work like that.
Aside from the green stuff what else has he renounced?
Ok I hope he and other young people with political interest see it in a different way. Clearly he sees Labour as way too similar to the current lot and wants something different while you and others want same shit different name and some people with bigger visions than yours wont be curbed by the anti democratic anti free speech "either with us or against us" talk
www.ft.com
www.politico.eu
I can’t read the FT as it’s behind a firewall. But the other one is scraping the barrel a bit.Five times Keir Starmer has changed tack on policy
Labour leader has performed U-turns and trimmed reform plans in effort to maximise the party’s electoral appeal
All Keir Starmer’s Labour U-turns in one place
POLITICO lists 27 (and counting) key walkbacks in Starmer’s spell as opposition leader.
He said what Labour members wanted to hear in order to be elected leader of the party.
With respect you’ve no idea at all what I want, or how big ‘my vision’ is. You’ve been here on this site for 5 minutes, and I dare say if you had been more familiar with my (long and dull) posting history, you’d have understood that my background ideology is very much to the left of Starmer and co.