How Keir Starmer Alienated ‘Generation Left’

[Sheepy]

I look at it like this, we are all having a boat party and the booze is flowing the Admiral is bit drunk and so is everyone else, we are on the deck partying as we enter the harbour, as we reach the dock one of the parties falls overboard, which one can sober up within a second jump on the dock and pull the drunken sailor from the water before he crushed by a steel hull and killed within a few seconds.
In answer to your other question.

[Thomas]

As youth icons go, Jeremy Corbyn—the earnest, now-septuagenarian Labour backbencher fond of home-made jam, allotments and manhole covers—was always an unlikely one. But nevertheless, his tenure as Labour leader saw young people engage with parliamentary politics in a way they hadn't done for decades, with thousands flooding into the Labour Party and millions enthused by its left-wing policies. Famously, for a time, Corbyn's name even reverberated around Britain's music festivals.

Since succeeding Corbyn as Labour leader, much of what Keir Starmer has done—waging bureaucratic warfare on left-run constituency parties, rowing back on previous policy commitments, and petulantly withholding the Labour whip from Corbyn himself—seems to have been predicated on the assumption that his predecessor is almost universally despised among the electorate. Certainly, this is a state of affairs which much of the Parliamentary Labour Party has worked very hard to bring about.

However, a recent opinion poll suggests that many Labour supporters feel otherwise. It found that among people who voted Labour in 2019—not party members—38 per cent of them would prefer it if Corbyn were still party leader, as opposed to 45 per cent who preferred Starmer. Considering the generally easy ride Starmer has been given by the media since assuming the office, and the probably unprecedented campaign of personal vilification to which Corbyn has been subjected, this isn't a particularly convincing margin.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/how-keir-starmer-alienated-generation-left

Not too bad an article , and yet again showing the major issues starmers new labour face in getting elected.

Long gone are the days of tony blairs triangulation , and appealing to the soft small c tory voting english marginals while holding the old left wing vote who have no where to go .