The @Dominic2306 brain dump about Starmer/Nandy contains some interesting stuff, herewith translated into Labourese ... 1/ Labour has no strategy because it has no surveillance function and a flawed decision making process. He's right. That's been said to every LOTO since Ed M...
2/ Labour fails because it cannot act/decide at speed; it understands the importance of mass but not energy - there is no instinct to get opponents offbalance...as per Boyd/OODA loops etc etc...
3/ In Dom's brain, where 500k Labour members are just cannon fodder, the leadership would focus relentlessly on crime, anti-trans stuff and go relentlessly for swing voters. That's exactly what Labour's own focus groups also say...
4/ But the reason this cannot happen has nothing to do with Starmer being "dud" etc... it is because the party is an active coalition of social forces that do obsess with various aspects of the social liberal agenda....
5/ He is also right that a female leader from a working class area would probably wipe the floor with Johnson (in a way Starmer is failing to), forcing the Tories themselves to swap leaders...
6/ He is also probably right that if the Tories move first, ditching Johnson while Labour keeps Starmer, the chances of a big Tory victory next time rise >80%... BUT...
7/ ... he completely underestimates to potential power of Labour as a social coalition; the inescapability of its slow, lumbering, bureaucratic modus operandi is inseparable from its power to enact change....
8/ ... because ultimately, for Cummings - and here's the sad part - the reality of class struggle does not exist. It's dynamics remain mysterious, as they can't be MRP polled...
9/ ... and so the huge and dramatic shifts that are possible once people get on the streets, irrespective of what the bureaucracy does, are not in his playbook...
10/ Cummings, for example, thinks it's really cool that Johnson won by proroguing parliament and lying to the Queen; he looks through the mass, active resistance movement we built simply because it lost....
11/ ... and thus sees BLM, MeToo, Gaza etc as "threats" to Labour's narrative rather than opportunities -
12/ ... that said, he is boringly correct on the dysfunctions of Starmer's leadership: AWOL at crucial moments, no verve, no laser-focused comms, no intuition for the main story, no economic story...
13/ The main takeaway is that the Tories are beatable if Johnson stays - but "bash criminals, kill terrorists and diss trans people" is just not gonna happen, even with any of the centrist figures who could plausibly replace KS... because this is Labour.
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