Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Labour’s in a mess over ‘working people’, and rightly so" video.

  1. Outrage farming again.
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  2. Sorry mate, but you need a better AI to help you write your comments. Quantity is not quality, when an argument meant is not based in reality. And there's certain clues in your comment that show you used an AI to create it. Why? There's no thread linking the factual beads your trying to string together. It's just a list of issues which doesn't reflect reality. You're outrage farming.
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  3. They still exist everywhere, even in large cities. To say they don't is a triumph of propaganda over reality. But reality is what it is. H.G. Wells is probably chuckling in his grave at the illogical thinking encouraged.
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  4. Starmer is coming across as a a bit of a Hot House Flower. Bought into the cold, ruthlessly sharp climate of front line politics, his foliage is being shrivelled. And his defensiveness is becoming the story rather than his political vision. You Richard are a good communicator. You're used to transmitting complex ideas without oversimplyfying them. Whether one agrees with your conclusions or not, we understand much of what you say and why your saying it. The gift of being a good teacher I suppose. And you're not alone. There's Professor Mark Blyth of Brown University in the US, who is brilliant at putting ideas about political economy in developed countries. I discovered yesterday that he used to be a stand-up comedian, which explains somewhat his style. Both of you could be great politicians because of that. Lawyers are supposed to be good speakers and the best trial and appeal lawyers are excellent and engaging, but not every lawyer is good at being a trial lawyer. They're good at being administrators and managers of small teams, but they don't get enough practice at communicating to a wide audience. I fear Starmer falls into this group. He's not "mastered his brief" enough, and it shows. He's not incompetent, but he is inexperienced in getting a crowd of people engaged. He's too self-conscious, and he's not used to being challenged or heckled. I think Starmer never had to do that kind of communicating, where being challenged is to be expected, and you understand audiences. It normally takes a good while of having to deliver that kind of engagement regularly to become skilled at it. In Labour's early days, going out to working men's clubs, union meetings, and regular campaigning honed those skills 'on the stump." We don't have those opportunities so much today, and our politics is suffering because of it.
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  5. Outrage Farming is not argument.
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