Starmer, Here’s what’s needed! – When new management becomes stale
What Starmer puts forward for the future of the labour parry is rather dull, bland and unauthentic. Lacking charisma nor conviction for those who love and loathe Corbyn can see scepticism in his leadership. Blair, Atlee, Wilson and Ramsay McDonald are the only four Labour Party leaders to become prime minister after becoming the majority party and finding the mandate to form a government Starmer sets to be the fifth labour leader to do so when faced with the general election in 2024 with three and a half years to go until the next election Starmer has time but to reform the Labour Party brand is a steep hill to climb after loosing the red wall core seats the lavour party has held for several decades. Starmer hopes his Labour Party can win over eurosceptic working class voters in post industrial towns beyond the metropolitan cities of London that under Corbyn’s tenure as leadership he lost at al, the election Labour Party contested under his tenure as party leader.
Starmer wants to rebuild the parties brand which some progressives like myself are sceptical of showing lack of interest on committing to offering radical alternatives to reform the British constitution and showing a lack of commitment to showing solidarity and commitment to social liberal issues. Willing to address matters of the racism of antisemitism in his party not yet on the week the Scottish National Party after Joanna Cherry on several accounts made transphobic comments and seen as to promoting terfism the SNP removed her from the parties frontbench of the westminster party group with speculation from New European that she could challenge first minister and leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon’s position as leader. For several months labour LGBTQ and trans allies within the party have been calling like Starmer did after Corbyn’s accounts of antisemetism when he was leader, that Starmer removes the party whip from MP Rosie Duffield after her several accounts of transphobia and trans misogyny after endorsing the work of anti trans campaigners and anti trans groups. As leader on such issues has failed yet to address or comment on such matters. When trans comedian, activist and supporter of charitable causes wishes to stand as an MP for the Labour Party Eddie Izzard is someone for years been committed to the principles of the party as labour leader it is Starmer’s duty and responsiblity to do what he can to make the party for those who share its ambitions and values are incliuded into its factions. Its rather disheartening that Starmer yet has been able to raise to the challenge and is falling to the tyranny of the majority.
Patriotism over progressive seems the leaders approach of the leader who claims is leader Nader new management. He wants to make the Labour Party the party of family values, veterans and the union flag which for some may be seen as a shift to what the Conservative party stands for traditionalist family values but some may interpret to try to reflect some of the patriotism that liberal president Joe Biden is committed to. This leadership has already lost the romantic corbynites who already want to challenge his leadership that doesn’t match Corbyn’s unviable socialist populism. Clive Lewis a formidable politician on the left of the Labour Party and a lover of socialism realises the importance of the party working in a progressive alliance claimed that the Conservative party has absorbed the pro Brexit English nationalistic populist vote fears with some of the parties messaging on traditionalist patriotism is morphing to the Tory party of old. This strategy from Starmer may leave progressive and minority members of the party feeling politically homeless if he cant sell forward looking progressive patriotism its not time for the Labour Party to look at the politics of old for the new.
The Labour Party is desperate to enter the doors of Downing Street but Starmer yet has to shown that he’s ready for constitutional reform. As the calls for Scottish and welsh independence has grower throughout lockdown and Nicola Sturgeon said to call an referendum on Scottish independence if wins the Scottish elections for Holyrood later this year. Its unclear that the former lawyer and politician of the establishment is fit to take on Sturgeon and keep the union together. He to some seems as robotic and as bland as Theresa ‘Maybot’ May with a sense of duty and not trying to replicate or bargain with voters for their vote which was part of how she failed to win a majority and win support of her own MP’s a leader who refused to act and perform in the role of leader. Starmers artificial performance is dull and bland much like the Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey but Davey least has vision and conviction.
The former Labour Prime Minister warns of Britain becoming a failed state claiming on Radio 4’s flagship morning news programme that Johnson doesn’t understand how out of touch and aa threat he is for the union. Brown claims that Scotlands interests are not national sovereignty and removing itself from the rule of westminster but are more concerned about social issues. Calling for great constitutional changes a commission of democracy to end politics elitist rule.
Its clear that labours recent electoral failings have been that it isnt able to arise to tackle the anti establishment rhetoric gerwoing one the far right but to communicate and persuade the electorate to new change if its only much of the same. It has failed with Brown and Miliband to oppose the rise of populist nationalism with the antithesis of progressive patriotic internationalism and how to commit to democratic, economic reform and to be a party that learns how to share humility to regain trust with the electorate. Starmer like Biden in america has the challenge of making his priority to turn down the temperature on politics in at a time when political discourse continues to be served pejoratively by nationalism and populism to be the party that can be inclusive again and willing to see smaller progressive parties as future partners in a progressive alliance which Starmer needs to recognise the importance of not over estimating the electoral chances of the Labour Party in 2024. Its still a long shot. to a landslide victory for Starmer needs to reconcile its relationship smith the Green Party and the Liberal Democrat’s and not seeing adversaries as the enemy if you wants to be on the road of poverty. As Biden wouldve struggled to win the last election in america without the support of Reaganist Republicans and Sanders’s socialists to the party of victory.
