Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Keir Starmer says he wants a bonfire of red tape?" video.

  1. Starmer's weakness is that he doesn't appreciate that sloganeering is not effective policy making. The ignorant will be misled, and the informed will be sceptical. If he really wants to impress develop a measured and grounded overarching narrative that identifies accurately the changes needed, and explains why. If he carries on in his current vein, he'll end up alienating everyone, as everyone is tired of empty soundbites. Everyone wants stability and measured policy making. I hope he oblige us, or he'll be building up the sense that he hasn't a firm enough grip on the realities to realise that he counfuusing the map with the territory. I mean, Aswath Damodaran, a professor of Finance at NYU Stern, noted in his blog and YT channel about the current events in anti-trust policy in the US, that law schools globally are pretty useless in teaching their students about business. So when they become regulators, they don't always understand what businesses do that can or should be regulated. And Starmer is a criminal lawyer, so regulation is naturally out of his wheelhouse. I suspect his advisers are inexperienced too. Or he wouldn't be doing what he's doing. All politicians in government learn on the job, but they need to have the right people around them who will not lead them astray. I'm not convinced his team of advisers are match-ready.
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