Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Keir Starmer must do THIS to win the next election | Andrew Marr | the New Statesman" video.

  1. Sunack believes he’s in the Epilogue of his time, not the Labour Prologue. That’s why he’s so cheerful. Because he’s still looting the shop while he’s enjoying that Epilogue and preparing for an even wealthier retirement in which he’s sabotaged Labour’s incoming chances of doing anything well. Being PM is just an expensive hobby for robotic vacuums like Sunack. Starmer does seem willing to walk into these traps, doesn’t he? People will just say, why bother to vote for them if they’re no different from the Tories? Less corrupt, obviously. Can’t they even tell us about the good stuff they will do?
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  2.  @malthusXIII-fo3ep  : Nah, it wasn’t just that the banking collapse began on his watch, during 2008, putting paid to his reputation as an adroit financial manager. The nation as a whole bitterly resented the anti-democratic tendencies Labour kept showing, and were sick of being ignored over issues like Iraq already. But then he was just handed the job of PM without even having to so much as compete within his own party for the job, let alone attempting to win an election or anything so oldfashionedly democratic. The British public were already sour on the idea of a back room, “Deal,” in which people could make shady determinations about our democracy. But the banking crash was considered his chance, blown, as he hadn’t seen it coming, like the rest of the planet; had no safety net against a rainy day (indeed, it turned out he’d been using our nation’s gold reserves to keep Labour’s criminal war in Iraq afloat) and he merely shrugged when the public screamed for justice against the stock barons and bankers who’d so recklessly squandered the nation’s wealth on a housing bubble from which the nation has STILL yet to recover! If only Labour didn’t have such anti-democratic instincts, which keep surfacing so spectacularly at least twice a decade, they would be the go-to, “sensible,” party, in the way that the Tories once were. Now Starmer is the closest thing we have to a safe pair of hands, so centrists with a conservative (small c) outlook, like me, see him as our last, best hope.
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