| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Forget aspiration with Labour | |
| Posted by: | Robert Fish | |
| Date/Time: | 19/09/25 18:06:00 |
| I voted Labour for a radical change in fiscal policy. I voted Labour for the renewal of public services. I voted for fairer income distribution. I voted for a government which would confront the rising tide of xenophobia and hate encouraged by a repulsive, self-aggrandising snake-oil salesman, posing as an affable man of the people. I was a fool. Labour gave me none of this. It gave me a timid prime minister who sought to minimise the loss of votes to the right by adopting the snake oil salesman's patter, and thus enhancing his credibility. I had hoped that Starmer would take a firmer line with Israel, and distance himself more from the Trump administration. Instead I discovered that the former well-respected human rights lawyer had become a moral mouse. And his timidity leaves us with the awful prospect of a government in four years' time, or even sooner, led by a smooth-tongued unprincipled chancer, whose political success depends solely on creating divisions in society. Thanks a million, Keir. |