We have to be mindful of the fact that we're almost certainly in the foothills of an election cycle, so Starmer is almost certainly trying to appeal to people who jumped into bed with Johnson last time out. That's inevitably going to annoy the core Labour voters as the person Johnson stole votes from was Corbyn. The question for me is more what he's likely to do when he's in office rather than over the next six months.
My money would be on Wes Streeting, Rachel Reeves, and Margaret Hodge for starters.
Right, but I don't know the various constituencies well enough to interpret the data. If I want to assess American elections data, I have lived a lot of places and know where to dig, right down to the precinct (polling site) level if I want to say something about how a group of the electorate voted. If I want to know how Muslim voters responded to Israel/Palestine in a gubernatorial, congressional and presidential election, I know where to find them clustered to say whether, and how much, they blamed Biden or their member of Congress. Ditto for most demographic breakdowns I might want to make.
Jess Phillips was also delighted when Labour lost one of those elections (I can't remember which of the two it was). And underneath frontline MPs there were lots within the party who were trying to sabotage the leader at that time. That's why I think it's a bit unfair for right-leaning members of the party to accuse others of Tory enabling.
Critise and hold them to account when in power.
Voting Labour and not doing anything to sabotage them.
My worry is a populist and further right wing Tory party emerging in significant opposition and Labour lurching further right to occupy ‘the centre ground’
...and the Tory Party and the Libs and the...
That’s a ridiculous stance and sets a dangerous precedence. Their proposed policies and rhetoric must be scrutinised and held to account otherwise we run the risk of ending up with the most useless government in modern times.
He doesn't care, to him politics is just a sport and morals are a disposable 'nice to have'.
We are currently suffering the most useless, corrupt and dangerous government that has existed in decades. And the current government show no signs of changing or improving. They keep finding new lows. What is most dangerous in my mind is the possibility of them managing to cling onto power.