So the writer means Starmer pulled it from a fringe left unelectable mess of in-fighting (in a first-past-the-post system and Murdoch dominated press) to a left-of-centre party that’s trying to win over as many voters as possible to get a overwhelming majority in parliament.
I don’t like how centrist the current form of the labour party is, but at least there’s a chance of them listening to us once in power.
Keir Starmer retreats from the Left into a position where he can actually govern
Fixed that for you 😂
can he really though? his party is already fracturing and purging lifelong labour members for tories isn’t going to help him govern, especially when the tory voters who voted labour in an election that labour only won because tory voters were angry the tories weren’t conservative enough go back to the tories.
It’s always the same question of which is the greater betrayal: Getting elected on a platform to deliver only some of what we on the left want. Or promising us all we want, not getting elected, and delivering none of it?
For me, I don’t find it hard to say which I prefer.
you can’t retreat from someplace you never were
