It took the Conservative Party, half the Labour Party and the overwhelming majority of the British press five years working full time at maximum nastiness to tank Corbyn into the same position Starmer and his team managed, just by being themselves. 
I don’t know if this means heavily choreographed political hate campaigns coordinated by the press in close conjunction with MPs battering their own party just take a long time to work effectively, or whether Sensible business suit centrism is astoundingly unpopular. Maybe both.
Anyway, it’s another reminder - not that we need one - that every time noisily moderate Sensible centrism has encountered the public, it has almost instantly exploded like a balloon full of hot sewage bumping into a pin, no matter how patriotic it is.
I mean, Starmer hasn’t had to deal with any internal dissent he didn’t go out of his way to provoke; he’s had the full kneepads treatment from the hacks from day one, and thanks to Covid he’s probably one of only about four recognisable politicians in the country. And
And if your takeaway from all this is that Britain is just choking for another New Labour style man in a suit to do more convincing patriotism and crackdowns, I absolutely don’t know what to tell you. You haven’t so much misjudged the country as the entire era across the world.
TL:DR - The word “electable” means “Will greatly enthuse British politics commentators, who are quite possibly the most clueless, serially destructive and clownish people in the country”.
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