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10 months agoKeir Starmer says and does nothing to alienate centre right voters. We will not find out what he really thinks until after the next election at the earliest, but what we do know, and so does he, is that (1) the Labour Party has fought two recent elections on genuine leftwing policies, and lost them both, and (2) voters on his left flank have nowhere else to go, unlike voters in the middle.
Look how they massacred my boy! 😭
Doesn’t matter why Corbyn lost from the perspective of Starmer’s perceived right-wing leaning. My point was just that we don’t know whether he’s right-wing in his heart or left of Che Guevara, because he’ll keep his mouth shut. He does not say anything left sounding because that’s how you lose elections.
Btw, Blair has an extremely problematic legacy, but he’s achieved more for the working class than anyone in the last half century.