Thread by @EthicalRenewal

Under Keir Starmer's leadership Labour have been losing their vote share in council and by-elections across the country, making greater losses than in GE 2019, despite that year’s smearing of Labour and its leadership (now pretty much ‘on hold’).

1/16
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Is this poor voter performance and Starmer’s continuing unpopularity the result of strategic mistakes on the part of him and his team?

Let’s look at what appear to be Sir Keir Starmer’s top ten errors of judgement.

2/16
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KEIR STARMER’S TOP 10 MISTAKES
Mistake No.10: Being Starmer

It was a strategic error for Labour to choose a leader so stale, male & pale he makes even ultra-privileged Johnson look anti-establishment. Tactically, should Starmer have put himself fwd for the leadership role?

3/16

STARMER’S TOP 10 MISTAKES
Mistake No. 9: Sacrificing the youth vote

Under Starmer, Labour have ignored the young, attacking its own youth wing & abandoning a range of youth-favourable policies. Since the young are a natural Labour demographic, that's a major tactical error.
4/16

STARMER’S TOP 10 MISTAKES
Mistake No. 8: Sacrificing the Muslim vote

Allowing perceptions to rise in an important base constituency of ‘taking Muslim voters for granted’ & 'ignoring Islamophobia' is another strategic failure by Starmer & his team.

5/16
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KEIR STARMER’S TOP 10 MISTAKES
Mistake No. 7: Squandering the green vote

Starmer retreated from the 2030 Zero Carbon target & disengaged from environmental issues. Neglecting climate change at this point in our nation’s history is both a tactical error & just plain wrong.
6/16

KEIR STARMER’S TOP 10 MISTAKES
Mistake No. 6: Brexit no! Brexit yes!

Starmer campaigned strongly against Corbyn’s ‘honor the vote’ position. Now he’s taken the line “There’s no case for rejoining”.

Flip-flopping is never a good look.

7/16
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KEIR STARMER’S TOP 10 MISTAKES
Mistake No. 5: The Uriah Heep mistake

Starmer keeps apologising for what Labour was/is. But why would anyone back a grovelling, Uriah Heep party, filled with self-loathing, when they've got a relentlessly self-promoting alternative on offer?

8/16

KEIR STARMER’S TOP 10 MISTAKES
Mistake No. 4: Supportivism

Starmer has continuously ‘supported’ the Tories, overlooking (or choosing to ignore) a basic political insight: supportivism equals lack of leverage.
Just ask Nick Clegg.

9/16
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KEIR STARMER’S TOP 10 MISTAKES
Mistake No. 3: Swinging to the right

Attempting to out-Tory the Tories is a mug's game. Flag-wavers & monarchists will never vote Labour when they’ve got the real deal on offer: a UKIP’d & ultra-nationalist Tory party.

10/16
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KEIR STARMER’S TOP 10 MISTAKES
Mistake No. 2: Attack the left!

Starmer’s attack on the Left pushes former Labour voters towards apathy & alternative parties, & his public in-fighting makes Labour unattractive to swing voters.

As for losing 200k members… well, 'nuff said.
11/16

KEIR STARMER’S TOP 10 MISTAKES
Mistake No. 1: Policy failure

People absolutely know (or think they know) what the Tories stand for: Building Back Better, Levelling Up, patriotic & anti-woke.
It’s a climactic failure of strategy from Starmer that this isn’t true of Labour.

12/16

For more detail on each of these mistakes, see Luke Andreski’s well-received article on ‘Keir Starmer’s Top Ten Mistakes’:

creatingsocialism.org/keir-starmers-…

13/16
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But these are only ‘mistakes’ if Starmer is a good faith actor. He is, after all, a pillar of the establishment & often appears more right of centre than left of centre. Was it always his intention to shift Labour to the right and abandon socialism altogether?

14/16
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If Starmer is a bad faith actor, who became Labour’s leader with a hidden agenda, then all of the mistakes listed above make sense. He's successfully demolished Labour as any form of threat to the corporates, the oligarchs, the defence industry & the machinery of the state.
15/16

As a bad faith actor, at the head of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer has to be considered an unparalleled success.

16/16
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