Starmer In Trouble With The Lefties

[dannyk13]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9232651/Keir-Starmer-isnt-working-Labour-Left-wingers-call-John-McDonnell-lead.html
Heaven forbid that they are successful.

[ToraToraTora]

Gawd, what's wrong with the hard left? I assume they don't ever want power they just want to remain pure to their loon tunes ideology. Captain H has no chance, IRA man, the enforcer even less!

[andy-hughes]

TTT - A prerequisite of belonging to the hard left is to see the world through a haze of nostalgia, longing to return to a world that, in reality never actually existed.

If you can so willfully bend the sense of reality you bring to your political views, then the idea that the rest of the nation is actually in agreement, but is stopped from voting for you for reasons that remain baffling, is a very short step.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

[ToraToraTora]

BA for AH right there!

[gulliver1]

Creep.

[ynnafymmi]

Welcome to the debate,Gullible.I thought you preferred nationalism to socialism anyway.

[gulliver1]

Boring.

[ynnafymmi]

Such a charming wee schoolboy.I wonder if his mummy knows that he posts on this site.

[gulliver1]

Yawn.

[Paigntonian]

You can't make it up. John McDonnell would be crucified if he tried to oust Starmer. Of course, people like McDonnell don't actually care about winning (impossible in any case) it's just ego and party political purity. I think Starmer is useless. So that's the Labour Party well and truly stuffed.

[ToraToraTora]

Labour have no chance in the next 2 elections. Boris will wipe the floor with whoever they put up.

[tomus42]

//Gawd, what's wrong with the hard left? I assume they don't ever want power they just want to remain pure to their loon tunes ideology.//

That is exactly their problem in a nutshell. The left wing of the Labour party will continue to expend all its energy attacking other
members of the Labour party until it restores what it sees as ideological purity. I have never had the sense that they are really interested in governing.

Corbyn gave the game away when he described Labour as the 'resistance' to the Tories. A resistance movement is one that seeks to make life as difficult as it can for an occupying force knowing full well that it never actually defeat them.

[andy-hughes]

tomus - // I have never had the sense that they are really interested in governing. //

I think you may well have a point there.

Corbyn has always struck me as a singularly cerebral individual - far more interested in his dream of socialism as an ideal, rather than a practical model for modern times, which it is clearly not.

It may be that he was content to see life through his misty lens of fantasy history, and the notion of actually doing something useful was never part of his plan.

Keir Starmer however does appear to have a greater grasp of reality - which would not be difficult - and he may be willing to assault the mountain of negativity left by his predecessor, and to fight the internal fantasists of the hard left who are still hanging around and keen on not in any way helping Starmer towards government, just making a lot of noise and trouble from the sidelines.