The anti-democratic cabal at the heart of the labour party refuses to cede any possibility of real change once again.
Not surprising. They’ve cancelled a bunch of local elections to postpone the embarrassment of losing ground to the Greens and Reform, makes sense they’d treat party democracy the same.
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I think you are missing the big point that there is not much difference between the tories and labour. There is, apparently, no alternative and this is one of the reasons that the country is abandoning the centre ground and polarising.
A lame duck polling as bad as Starmer is, obstinately using the levels of party bureaucracy to hold back any alternative is only going to make a reform Government increasingly likely.
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Burnham isn’t Corbyn.
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It seems like you see politics as a game of Rock Paper Scissors, but it’s not as simple as that.
Will Starmer automatically win against Farage? There’s certainly no evidence to suggest that so far.
I wouldn’t even say Burnham is particularly left wing; maybe against Farage but that’s not saying much.
Not that being left wing is inherently a vote loser. A lot of political popularity is down to personality, which Starmer doesn’t have but Burnham does (in comparison).
I think you’re fighting the last battle. The world isn’t the same as it was.
Starmer will take the party down at the next election. His polling is worse than Sunak, even worse than Truss. In fact his polling is the worst of any PM on record.
If Labour want to be in government next term, they must replace Starmer with time to spare to allow the successor to get some policies through. That means a change of leader this year or next.
