AnthonyFStevens

AnthonyFStevens , 18 days ago

@ChrisMayLA6

I'd be more worried about #Starmer if he dogmatically stuck to a pledge, even though the original situation had completely changed.

It's called being street smart & politically savvy. Power First, then start repairing what the #Tories took 14 years to break.

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AnthonyFStevens , 18 days ago

@ChrisMayLA6

Agreed to a degree. This is politics, & #Starmer the leader had a difficult birth.

1. Become Leader after #Corbyn
2. #Brexit
3. #Antisemitism
4. Rebuild #Labour
5. The Left calling him a #Tory
6. Not scare Centre Right voters
7. Not scare business

Starmer can spew all the ideological waffle he's got, but without power, it means nothing.

This is why I don't understand the reticence toward him. We had Doris the clown & Truss the living stiff. We now need serious grown ups

AnthonyFStevens , 18 days ago

@Colman @ChrisMayLA6

1. #Starmer knows the publications you spoke of have the knives out for him & #Labour. In this respect you have to skillfully negotiate your way through the #Tories client media minefield. Once in power, different rules apply!

However, as seen in the Fail 2 days ago, they gave Reeves the front page, because even they want to be seen on the side of the winner. Labour have decided not to interrupt their enemy, whilst they're busy making mistakes, & it's working.

AnthonyFStevens , 18 days ago

@Colman @ChrisMayLA6

2. As for Diane Abbott & #Corbyn, both are in ther 70s & in #Labour's past. The country gave their verdict on them in 2019, which led to the biggest election dry bumming in political history.

The world has moved on, & so has Labour. If Corbyn & Abbott so wish, they can join forces with Derek Hatton, Momentum, NIP & the #Socialist Workers Party & put their case to the #UK electorate.

They haven't, so the question remains, if the have all the answers, why haven't they? 🤔

AnthonyFStevens , 18 days ago

@ChrisMayLA6 @Colman

#Starmer & #Labour deserve their opportunity to succeed or fail. Rebuilding the party from the rubble #Corbyn left behind wasn't an easy task, ESPECIALLY as his most vehement opponents have come from the Far Left.

Many of them are sworn enemies of Starmer, & would rather another 5 years of #Sunak, than see Sir Keir in No 10. When politics gets this bitter & self destructive, you know those who're willing to bite their noses off to spite their faces have lost the plot

AnthonyFStevens , 18 days ago

@ChrisMayLA6 @Colman

I honestly don't see where the concerns over #Starmer lie?

Cutting to the chase & being brutally honest, we all know the anti-Starmer sentiments derive from Labour's Left & the hard-core #Corbyn support.

They blame Starmer & the centrist #Labour MPs for Corbyn's derisory General Election performance, & have never forgiven them.

The cold hard fact is, it was the #UK electorate who sealed Corbyn's fate. It wasn't so much the message they didn't like, it was the messenger

AnthonyFStevens , 18 days ago

@Colman @ChrisMayLA6

The #UK has changed, & if #Labour doesn't change & evolve with it, it will die. The #UK is a Social Democratic country, which lurched to the extremes with disastrous consequences.

We had the ERG/Tories on the far right, & the #Corbynista/Momentum caucus on the far left. #Starmer has steered Labour back to the centre, & I suspect that the one nation Tories will inherit the #CONservatives after #GE2024 & steer them back to the centre too.

Thankfully Starmer got there 1st

AnthonyFStevens , 18 days ago

@trantion @Colman @ChrisMayLA6

The one nation #Tories led by David Gauke have been quietly biding their time, which was outlined in the book 'The Case for the Centre Right'.

They're the largest group in the #CONservative party, & have already given notice that they intend to wrestle control back from the Far right ERG loons, who took over the asylum.

https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/claiming-centre-ground-damian-green-interview

AnthonyFStevens , 17 days ago

@Loukas @trantion @Colman @ChrisMayLA6

The ERG have been bleeding influence since the demise of Doris. They did a deal to support him as PM if he became the face of #Brexit, & they undermined May & delivered on their promise. Without Doris, there was no potential leader who owed them.

You could see how weakened they were after first supporting the disastrous Liz Truss, leaving no one listening to them as #Sunak walked to his coronation.

They're yesterday's people just like the #Corbynistas.

AnthonyFStevens , 17 days ago

@Loukas @cstross @Colman @trantion @ChrisMayLA6

#Immigration IS an #EU issue. The quicker #Europe realises it needs to man its outer borders, the quicker it will stem the tide of economic migrants from #Asia the #MiddleEast & #Africa.

Europe also needs to fix what it broke through colonialism, so migrants don't feel the desperate need to escape their countries.

With the spectre of #Trump on the horizon, I think this will lead to the hastening of an EU armed force to in case #NATO folds.

AnthonyFStevens , 17 days ago

@Loukas @cstross @Colman @trantion @ChrisMayLA6

"So it's only fair Europe offers them a home."

Or better still, #Europe to fix what it broke through conquest, colonialism, slavery & exploitation of precious resources & their mineral wealth, so these desperate people no longer feel the need to flee the countries of their birth, looking for a better life.

AnthonyFStevens , 17 days ago

@Loukas @cstross @Colman @trantion @ChrisMayLA6

I agree to a degree, but the rise of the #FarRight in #Europe is deeply concerning for me. Mass migration is playing straight into the hands of those who seek to divide us, & it seems many are ignoring what could possibly follow.

Have we learned nothing from 1930s #Germany? We ignore their concerns at our peril. I believe it best the sensible majority grab the initiative & deal with the causes of mass migration & control the narrative b4 they do