Maybe things can’t only get better for Keir Starmer, as he is shamed with the latest polling just as the Labour conference begins

  • Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 days ago

    I think Starmer could be considered a reformer analogous to Stolypin, or perhaps Alexander II. In some ways, Starmer would have been considered a fairly radical social democrat able to appease the working classes, in another time. But now is not the time for moderate reformers who ultimately serve the existing ruling classes.

    And the people who say to “Give Starmer a chance!” are the same who, in 1910, were bemoaning Alexander II and Stolypin’s assassinations because “We were just starting to get the reforms we’ve been asking for - and you radicals blew it for all of us!”

    The time for reform is over. The people demand revolution.

    • Flax@feddit.uk
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      6 days ago

      I just want affordable housing, a reliable NHS and for my girlfriend to be let back into the country ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ