Reading through Keir Starmer’s speech, I couldn’t help notice the complete absence of Brexit. Just like Corbyn before him, no acknowledgement of the damage that Brexit has done, no attempt to answer the questions it has posed. Nothing. Even w/ the emollient talk about ‘business’
A perfect opportunity to savage the Tory reputation as the ‘party of business’ and the reckless destruction of the economy. Two for the price of one. Labour can’t/won’t take either because it has colluded with the debacle and doesn’t have the courage now to even raise it
At a time when so many businesses are being hammered by Brexit and abandoned by the government. Instead we get tepid pledges not to return to ‘normality’ - as if Covid were the only thing that has wrecked the notion of what ‘normality’ means anymore
And still Labour is apologising and promising it won’t overspend and be fiscally profligate as if we were still back in 2010. When Covid has shown that austerity was always a political, or rather, an ideological choice, as Starmer puts it. Why does Labour still do this?
Why is it still saying essentially ‘we won’t be incompetent (again)’ when dealing with Tory governments that have shown themselves repeatedly to be staggeringly off-the-scale incompetent? Why does Labour stand before the electorate with head bowed and cap in hand after this?
It staggers me. And why the insistence on the ‘homeowning’ dream and no reference to rent control - so important for the young - as if owning your own home were somehow more transcendent an aspiration than living in one?
No one expects Starmer to rant and rave. But there is a terrible disconnect between the insipid warmed-over Milibandism and the dire situation in which we all find ourselves. Not to mention an absence of anger, passion,belief that this voter at least finds very dispiriting.
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