| Labour/Starmer 13:32 - Jul 23 with 8593 views | DJR |
The last thread about Labour got pulled but it didn't run its course, so fingers crossed.
The comments below the line on this article are overwhelmingly hostile to Labour/Starmer, and these are Guardian readers.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/23/labour-stumble-uxbridge-sh
I read in the Times today that Labour's Director of Strategy, Deborah Mattinson is behind the volte face on ULEZ, but she is a polling/PR guru with an apparent obsession with the Red Wall, having written a book about it. And it looks like she is behind the rightward drift of Labour more generally.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/londoners-diary-tensions-labour-
My view is that the loss in Uxbridge was down more to a lack of enthusiasm for Labour, rather than ULEZ (something Ben Kentish on LBC thought too) but it is convenient to blame ULEZ, and throw Sadiq Khan under a bus, because it takes the heat off any inadequacies of Labour, whether in relation to its campaign in Uxbridge or the Labour offering more generally. I might add that Mattinson has, according to the Times, been at war for some months with Khan over ULEZ, so is no doubt seizing on this as the reason for defeat to strengthen her side of the argument.
The problem it seems to me is that pursuing the Red Wall to the point of obsession merely ends up with voters in other parts of the country, or in other demographics, feeling totally underwhelmed by Labour, which brings with it the risk of apathy and low turnout for Labour, something that a voter in Uxbridge suggested was the case. After all, it is very surprising, after all that Johnson has done, for there not to have been a much bigger backlash there against the Tories.
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| Labour/Starmer on 11:18 - Jul 25 with 523 views | Herbivore |
| Labour/Starmer on 10:24 - Jul 25 by GlasgowBlue |
I'd back Streeting's vision on how to fix the things you have listed, based on his own lived experiences over faux marxists who have spent their lives in academia and social work. |
Yes, social workers know nothing about the real world, insulated as they are from the struggles of vulnerable people.
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| Labour/Starmer on 11:20 - Jul 25 with 517 views | Herbivore |
Congrats, Glassers, for sewing up the dumbest post of the year award when it's only July and there's been some stiff competition. | |
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| Labour/Starmer on 12:57 - Jul 25 with 453 views | DJR |
| Labour/Starmer on 10:47 - Jul 25 by Ryorry |
Really ignorant comment re social workers there Glassers.
As a former probation officer & social worker (across the entire range - families on sink estates, families in luxury houses, all ages in prisons establishments, teens with autism, disabled and/or elderly, visual & hearing impaired etc.) I can tell you there's very little of the UK world that you don't see in those jobs. |
And fairly savage cuts to the number of social workers during austerity has no doubt contributed to many of the social and crime issues we are now facing.
Don't forget, for example, that social workers, along with other groups, played an important role in dramatically reducing knife crime in Glasgow.
And when it comes to probation, the part-privatisation of probation service in 2014 to save money was an unmitigated disaster.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47728948
Indeed, nothing the coalition Government did (including austerity itself) has stood the test of time.
Cameron has a lot to answer for, but gets away scot free from criticism. | | | |
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