Comments by "" (@alicemerray) on "Keir Starmer (Sir Kid Starver) Targets the Poor, PLUS Why Mhairi Black Is Quitting | Pod Save The UK" video.

It was a mis-step by Starmer. There were ways he could have side-stepped the issue, just said something like 'we will be reviewing everything', but he is, as you say, pandering to the (entirely too many) people who think this is a good policy *because they haven't thought it through at all*! It is incredibly easy to end up with more than 2 kids without in any way being "feckless" - unexpected twins or a blended family just for starters - and we should NEVER be making the children suffer. It's also not that easy to get a job if you also need childcare. He's appealing to the idiot in the pub, grousing about "scroungers" - most people on these benefits already have one person in work! I for one am fed up to the back teeth of politics that caters to these people. The ones that 364 days out of 365 have no interest in politics but apparently will vote, or so the politicians seem to think, so they tailor every statement to them. I think Starmer is in danger of turning progressives off and because his win is supposedly 'locked in' we'll stay home or protest vote Lib Dem or Green and he won't get a majority or may even lose. It's not that big a task to argue for dropping this heinous policy and the fact that he won't even try really disgusts me.
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It would have been interesting to hear Mhairi's view on how the actual implementation of Brexit - ie a total shambles with problem after problem rearing its head - has coloured views of a possible independence. Surely even the most ardent indie must be thinking the whole exercise would have to be undertaken really quite slowly and carefully, not like Brexit which is frankly even worse than it would have been (though it was never going to be good) because it was rushed through to give Johnson a win.
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@stephenwood2172 Indeed. In 2017 and 2019, Labour got almost the same number of votes, they just fell differently in seats. So in '17, they held May to such a small majority she had to basically buy the DUP to stay in power but in '19, Johnson got a big majority. But it's a myth that overall people didn't want the left wing policies.
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