Keir Starmer’s essay is a cliché-ridden disaster

[cromwell]

It seems the unions aren't up for his rule change.

[Thomas]

Didn't  Bliar do a road ahead interview last year about Iran?
Has Keir been cribbing from Tone the t*at?

Probably cromwell. Starmer is that deluded he  thinks emulating blair is the way to go.

What interests me is how low his approval ratings are among the party faithfull. Even srb steve constantly says how bad starmer is.

[cromwell]

 Didn't  Bliar do a road ahead interview last year about Iran?
Has Keir been cribbing from Tone the t*at?

[Thomas]

Next week, when Keir Starmer appears on stage at Labour conference in Brighton, it will be the first time he has spoken to a packed crowd of party members since he became leader. Covid restrictions meant his inaugural leader's speech at party conference in September 2020 was delivered to an empty hall and shared via a video link. It was a blessing in disguise. Starmer had an excuse for failing to make much of an impression. He was also able to deliver criticism of the Jeremy Corbyn era without fear of boos from the delegates.

His audience will be less forgiving now. Over the past year, his position as Labour leader has weakened. Disappointing local election results, a botched shadow cabinet reshuffle and Starmer's sliding popularity in the polls have led to speculation about his ability to lead the party to power. The hope was that Starmer would be more moderate than Corbyn and therefore more electable. Yet few believe he is on course for Downing Street. Is Starmer too robotic to appeal to the public? And if he can get the attention of voters, does he have anything to say to them?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/will-this-be-keir-starmers-kinnock-moment

[Thomas]

Keir Starmer's essay is a cliché-ridden disaster

Many years ago, a tabloid newspaper played an unkind prank on the author of a very long and much talked-about literary novel. They sent a reporter to various bookshops to place a slip of paper into copies of the book 50 pages or so from the end. The slip said that if you phoned a particular phone number, the newspaper would pay you a fiver. Gleefully, some weeks later, they reported that nobody had telephoned to collect their prize – from which they deduced that despite its sales figures, practically nobody was actually reading the book to the end.

About halfway through reading Keir Starmer's new pamphlet for the Fabian Society – The Road Ahead – I wondered idly whether a similar prank had been played. Somewhere in italic type, halfway through a paragraph on the penultimate page, perhaps there was a message: 'The first person to call 1-800-KEIR gets to be Shadow Home Secretary.' It's the only explanation – that the document is a loyalty test aimed at a very small handful of close advisers – that I could see for such a thing to be published.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-s-essay-is-a-clich--ridden-disaster

The only thing striking about Starmer's pamphlet is how ridden with cliches, how boring, how badly written it is.

Starmer getting another peltering in the media. Im beginning to wonder is starmer will go down as the worst labour leader since michael foot.?