I flat out disagree with Andrew. Labour has a huge majority and years to go in this parliament.
Who would be better than Starmer?
Streeting? Damaged goods & unproven gravitas. Rayner - from the left of the party, which has forced the chancellor into several highly damaging growth busting / union placating / procrastinating decisions (minimum wage / NI rises / failure to tackle welfare mechanisms & spending). Mahmood- has disgraced herself with performative asylum seeker bashing to no effect. Lammy - pompous & maladroit. Cooper & Miliband? Reheated & unappetising. Reeves? Please, god no - enough sophomoric economics. And so on.
Burnham is therefore the only plausible candidate.
Starmer must pull off the mother & father of all u-turns and invite him in as co-pilot: maybe in a foreign/ domestic quasi-job-share.
Not a Starmer or even a party fan BUT I do question all those in politics AND media. The Epstein saga has been going on since first accused of sexually abusing girls in 2005.
Surely, anyone in those two professions have failed the public through incompetence
Starmer was elected when Biden was still president. He fit the existing political mood reasonably well. Trump's return to power scrambled the situation and Starmer's calm and competent bureaucrat approach quickly became out of date. Sending Peter Mandelson to Washington was a sign of panicked reaction.
If Labour does pick a new leader it has to be somebody more in keeping with the new realities. And the nostalgia for both New Labour AND Trotskyite Labour needs to be buried forever.
I flat out disagree with Andrew. Labour has a huge majority and years to go in this parliament.
Who would be better than Starmer?
Streeting? Damaged goods & unproven gravitas. Rayner - from the left of the party, which has forced the chancellor into several highly damaging growth busting / union placating / procrastinating decisions (minimum wage / NI rises / failure to tackle welfare mechanisms & spending). Mahmood- has disgraced herself with performative asylum seeker bashing to no effect. Lammy - pompous & maladroit. Cooper & Miliband? Reheated & unappetising. Reeves? Please, god no - enough sophomoric economics. And so on.
Burnham is therefore the only plausible candidate.
Starmer must pull off the mother & father of all u-turns and invite him in as co-pilot: maybe in a foreign/ domestic quasi-job-share.
Old news, looks as if it were written last week. Give it a rest, please. The New Statesman really needs to be better than this
Not a Starmer or even a party fan BUT I do question all those in politics AND media. The Epstein saga has been going on since first accused of sexually abusing girls in 2005.
Surely, anyone in those two professions have failed the public through incompetence
OR
Something more sinister
Starmer was elected when Biden was still president. He fit the existing political mood reasonably well. Trump's return to power scrambled the situation and Starmer's calm and competent bureaucrat approach quickly became out of date. Sending Peter Mandelson to Washington was a sign of panicked reaction.
If Labour does pick a new leader it has to be somebody more in keeping with the new realities. And the nostalgia for both New Labour AND Trotskyite Labour needs to be buried forever.
https://thebluearmchair.substack.com/p/when-even-your-best-friends-dont?r=5kmhkr