Thats with Corbyn ......Starmer will be more supported.
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[Politics] Keir Starmer
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Thats with Corbyn ......Starmer will be more supported.
This.
A signal we’re going to get a much needed centralist party at last.
Sit back a watch his ratings shoot past Johnson’s.
Machiavelli
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Delighted to see that Rosena Allin-Khan got second place in the deputy contest. Alongside being an MP, she has continued to work voluntarily for the NHS. It has the added benefit of putting the buffoon Burgon into third place.
Sir Keir said he had been elected "at a moment like no other" and promised to work "constructively" with the government to confront the pandemic and not engage in "opposition for opposition's sake".
Presumably that poll was when there was still a chance of getting Wrong-Bailey? I wouldn't have wasted the effort typing my post if she'd won.
Oh, I do. In fact the Tories would be doing better if they'd elected another leader - it's just happens that the PM at the moment is one of the worst possible choices: lazy, no grasp of detail, poor organisational skills, poor people selection (chooses his mates rather on ability).
Whatever you think of Jeremy Hunt, he was a competent health secretary and was in position for a long time - he should have been closely involved. And when you think of Mark Rutte, the Dutch PM, who chose an opposition politician to be his health secretary on the grounds that he was more experienced, you see how poor Johnson has been.
I wouldn't say that Johnson was the worst MP to be PM at this time but he's not even in the top 300 best.
Brilliant news.
At the risk of violently agreeing with you that was the entire point of the rest of my post. There really could not have been a worse Tory leader for this particular situation. But Labour under Corbyn were ideology first and everything else second. Just as bad.
It really needs a "war government" led by competent medics and scientists but we won't get that.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Who so despised the 'metropolitian London elite' voted for the 'metropolitian London Eton elite'.
swindonseagull
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Hardly game on for another few years but at least he is a credible leader
GT49er
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That is of course his weak point. He will have plenty of time in opposition to work to overcome that - good luck to him, hope he does.
When the sickest of their relatives are dead, when their favourite food disappears off the shelf, when they've been locked in for three months and when their life choices for the next decade involve either unemployment or high taxes the metropolitan elite will be the least of their worries.
swindonseagull
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All world leaders are in the same boat with Covid 19 damned if they do damned if they don’t.
Machiavelli
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I'm with you here. I think Corbyn would have acted sooner, and made better decisions, instead of the "dither and delay" we've been subjected to
Who so despised the 'metropolitian London elite' voted for the 'metropolitian London Eton elite'.
Yes, but Boris was never defined as what was it 'metropolitan London Eton elite' by a large section of voters, to many people it was irrelevant where he went to school, whereas Starmer, Thornberry and Corbyn were seen as out of touch and living in a bubble by many, many Labour voters, particularly is the north and midlands.
Corrected for you