DannyL

Wild Horses
It's just there's a certain template of left anti-semitism and that ticks all the boxes. We can also insist to the degree we can about transparency from Labour. Both these things are true at the same time.
 
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boxedjoy

Well-known member
that focus group must be made of idiots. Imagine being disappointed for criticising the Government over their negligence in their complicity with the deaths of 100,000 people.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
Yeah. I don't disagree.

Only thing I'd say is idk where you live, but it always strikes me how different perceptions are between my social group and those I know and the type of perceptions I read about in national focus groups or those reported from marginal seats The papers always visit Nuneaton as a "bellweather" - I think I would hate to live somewhere like that, would find it very hard, but it's in these little towns that elections are won and lost in. That's who Starmer is trying to talk to with his Captain Competency impression, not you or me.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps

Here it is - One recent focus group found that many voters didn’t like the impression that Starmer was ‘consistently criticising’ at a time of national emergency.
Yeah but the voters are wrong, aren't they, so he should definitely do the opposite of whatever they think he should.
 

boxedjoy

Well-known member
It's just ridiculous. Trying to appeal reasonable to unreasonable people. Playing the politics of respectability while people are literally suffering and dying in their thousands. It shouldn't be seen as audacious to stand up and say "actually, all this misery and ineffectiveness and corruption we're seeing is disgraceful, and you, the public, deserve better than that"
 

version

Well-known member
It doesn't matter what he does. If he stops criticising the government then the same people will blame anything negative on the lack of opposition. Labour should just throw in the towel and leave the Tories to it. The people want a one-party state.
 

luka

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It's a mystery he told me we've met several times but his style doesn't match anyone I know except possibly slackk who already is slackk
 
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