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Thread #171879   Message #4164965
Posted By: Steve Shaw
12-Feb-23 - 02:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 2
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 2
Cheers, Pete. And everything you put in your list is principled. We can ditch all that for expediency in order to win an election (though there will be the delusion when we do win that we won it, whereas the truth will be that the Tories lost it by implosion). But the effect won't last, quite likely not even for one full term. And the Tories know that. We need something better than four years of blaming the Tories for the mess they left us with. With Starmer, we haven't got that, nothing like. In 2028-ish, the Tories will be back. They always come back, and the electorate in this country find it far easier to side with the Tory brand of populism. Whatever we think of Blair, we desperately need to examine what it was that (a) made him win, (b) made him keep winning. Whatever it was, it's blatantly obvious that Starmer hasn't got it.