Yesterday Johnson gave the kind of awful keynote speech to the Tory conference you might expect from the worst PM in U.K. history. Yet the Labour left on Twitter chose to attack...Keir Starmer, even though (because?) he has gained political ground in a remarkably short time.
Labour has now overtaken the Tories in the polls. Starmer is way higher than Johnson as a potential PM. Even Johnson’s supporters are moving away from him. All this has been achieved against the background of a national pandemic. Yet the Labour left attacks Starmer
And also contemptuously insults those who have (cautiously) supported him (Red Tories, Starmerhoids, and of course ‘centrists’ etc) with the same viciousness that the Labour right once directed at Corbyn.
To criticise Starmer is fair enough. (I criticised Corbyn, though I voted for him twice. )But the level of attack I saw yesterday is not criticism, it is destructive vengeful politics that offers no solution to the terrifying problems bearing down on us. It ONLY helps Johnson
Because right now Starmer is Labour’s only hope. And a left of centre Labour government, hopefully in coalition, is our only hope. It won’t be a socialist government as defined by the Corbynite left, but it might just be the best we can hope for at this time,
And there is no evidence to suggest any other possibility unless you judge your political choices solely by what one section of the left already believes and which, as been demonstrated twice, has no wider electoral credibility.
So I doubt I will change any minds about this. I may well lose followers. But for the record, I would just like to say that this StarmerOut stuff is infantile, destructive, and vengeful politics of the worst kind and I will never be part of a ‘movement’ that behaves like this
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