I’d be more willing to listen to your opinion on Starmer’s approval ratings if you didn’t spend the last 5 years trying to convince everyone that Corbyn was the most popular politician in contemporary British politics.
The thing is, pre-Corbyn the Labour Left had a very powerful argument: they had never been given the chance to run the show. They then took over and ran the party into the ground and destroyed their own integrity & credibility by cheerleading through every single disaster.
There’s no way to reset the clock and pretend you haven’t been given a crack of the whip, that it wasn’t an unmitigated disaster, and that you didn’t support the leadership uncritically throughout that period.
So forgive me if I don’t take your opinion that the Northern Independence Party (lmao) may pose a serious threat to Starmer, it’s still less than 2 years since you ridiculed a pregnant Jewish MP getting hounded out of your party by your ideological allies.
Imagine laughing your way through a dozen Labour MPs quitting over antisemitism, before a statutory body found the party guilty of unlawful racial discrimination, and then asking people to take the Lancashire Clowncar Circus Party seriously. Good luck with that folks.
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