Why would he not offer support to people, in the midst of a cost of living crisis, taking action to try and safeguard their jobs, and have a pay rise to partially keep pace with increased costs?
That's the bit I dont really understand. Or I do understand, pragmatism, but it is hard to swallow mate. It's not ordinary who have caused this mess, yet we always tend to get vilified.
What puzzles me is why he is so reluctant to, if not come right out in support of the strike, at least show some empathy with the strikers and go down to a picket line and be seen with them.
He is missing out on an opportunity.
As far as I can see the strike enjoys widespread support among even the most inconvenienced of commuters.
Mick has captured the zeitgeist of a public totally demoralised and worried about their finances and the blatant corruption and incompetence of this rotten government and the undisguised profiteering of energy companies.
Even today some of them are reporting record profits as our petrol, electricity and gas prices surge.
IMO Starmer should be joining Mick and harnessing this new found, fighting back spirit instead of sitting on his hands.
Starmer is facing an open goal as these two beauts freely admit on TV as they cut lumps out os one another that the government they were an intregal part of has created a mess that only they can “fix”.
Really?
It is something out of Bizarro World.
Yet there he is, that open goal gaping in front of him…and Starmer turns right round and fires the ball into his own net.
I want so much to get behind a Labour leader and I do sincerely hope Starmer is in Downing Street within the next two years.
But God, I find it hard to support him and impossible to like him.
