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Why not give Sir New Prime Minister a break? | David Mitchell (www.theguardian.com)
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Do you think the press is too critical of Keir Starmer?

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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  1. The press have it in for Labour
  2. How were the Tories getting on?
  3. Labour can't solve our economic problems without big upheaval. Are unwilling to accept that, even though public voted for change.
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)
  1. Labour are communicating their plan to the public really badly. All we hear is cut, cut, cut but nothing about what those cuts will enable them to do. There no positive narrative.
[–] primal_buddhist@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

This does also require the press to do the reporting but their remit seems to be only the bad bits.

[–] Tagger@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm disappointed in the lack of 'oven-ready' plans from them. They had a stable shadow cabinet for a good amount of time and I was confident they were going to sweep in and be quite dynamic, and I feel like I've yet to see that.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 points 15 hours ago

Yeah I agree. I understood them being deliberately vague during the campaign to reduce their attack surface but I thought they would come out swinging with loads of progressive bills after they won. I find the whole situation depressing tbh. Politicians have over-specialised in fighting elections to the point that they have don't have it in them to govern.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The fact that one of their first major announcements was essentially 'We're taking heating money away from old people' might have been the stupidest thing they could have done.

Anyone with common sense knows that it's means tested now, and those that need it should be able to get it, but, Christ, they screwed it up. Even if they'd waited until the spring, and gave guides on how to apply, they would have looked more compassionate, and not so clueless.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

"They screwed it up". They don't have a friendly and receptive media they can call on to spin their message.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Hey that's not true at all, the whole world has seen those atrocious AI ads about how they're putting more cops on the street!