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Is there a consensus on what would constitute a good vs bad result for Labour in the local elections? And if there is a bad result, is Starmer at all vulnerable to a leadership challenge? Were a leadership challenge to take place, I think he’d have a way harder time seeing off a challenger than Corbyn had with Smith, but I have no sense of whether the PLP would actually trigger such a contest with sufficiently bad results in the local elections.
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# ¿ May 2, 2021 12:58 |
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# ¿ May 12, 2024 13:26 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'd be surprised. The mega excuses: So one of those situations where Starmer won’t be held accountable if the Party does terribly, but will be given all the accolades if they somehow outperform expectations. Cool.
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# ¿ May 2, 2021 13:39 |
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Any reason I shouldn’t be voting for Siân Berry ahead of Sadiq tomorrow?
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# ¿ May 5, 2021 17:37 |
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I actually don’t think Starmer will last that much longer. I think these results undermine him too critically, and leave him with too much baggage, even for the centrist/right part of the party. That BBC interview is not an artefact of someone who will hold their position for years to come. His brand is now: (1) can’t communicate a vision; and (2) turns off voters. If he manages to hold on, it will be because the Labour right can’t identify better options. While I know their number one priority is to keep the left out of power, they know their best shot of doing that is to offer something that can be spun as electoral success.
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# ¿ May 8, 2021 08:24 |
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So Labour could not even manage to get a single frontbench spokesperson on Marr three days after the largest set of elections until the next GE, one of the few times people are more clued into Westminster politics? They are failing even by their own measure of “competent” managerialism.
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# ¿ May 9, 2021 09:57 |
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# ¿ May 12, 2024 13:26 |
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So in the timeline where 2019 still happened, but RLB beat Starmer for the leadership - how would Labour have fared this last week?
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# ¿ May 9, 2021 15:27 |