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Not sure about this. 2020 leadership contest was bloodless and unless you were particularly Online at the time, there was no loud questioning of his credentials or background.
He still might have won against a more aggressive left preaching scepticism, but not as easily.
He still might have won against a more aggressive left preaching scepticism, but not as easily.
https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1651892139435884544
I remember when squeezing the ten pledges out of him was considered a major concession to left policy, lmao.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not sure there was any way a left candidate could have won with the cards as dealt, but at the very least could have built a springboard for bigger and fiercer internal resistance to the right's takeover of the party bureaucracy.
Should have pushed harder on the Labour First connection IMO. Was clearly a sore spot for Starmer once stories started leaking out about him shutting down questioning about taking a staffer from them, because it undermined his Respectable Corbynism platform.
Like, it still says this on their website. How could anybody believe a genuine left wing platform would be amenable to these people?
You'd either have to be fucking stupid (as the left wingers who assisted Starmer's campaign were), or in on the con.
You'd either have to be fucking stupid (as the left wingers who assisted Starmer's campaign were), or in on the con.
God knows Luke Akehurst and his merry band of right wing freaks have given us enough rope to hang them with over the years.
I truly believe if the average voter knew who he was and what his politics were they'd never vote Labour again.
I truly believe if the average voter knew who he was and what his politics were they'd never vote Labour again.
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