Adam Boulton: Keir Starmer should expect to come under vicious assault from day one if Labour wins landslide
I hope so, we need some entertainment as decline is almost certainly set to continue unless "Sir" Keir's lot are hiding their collective lights under some remarkably opaque bushels.
There is nothing like the enthusiasm there was for the charismatic Tony Blair in 1997 - Keir Starmer has negative personal ratings, only much better than Rishi Sunak.
Voters are more disillusioned by politicians of any kind than they were then but a landslide would be a landslide and there are some comparisons to be drawn.
But not disillusioned enough to stop playing games on their phones and take the time to work out what might be going wrong.
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I wrote elsewhere, about another situation, where 50 years ago businesses were loyal to their workers and workers were loyal to the business that employed them (often for life). There is no business loyalty beyond day to day any more. If you are in the wrong part of the business you can be made redundant at the stroke of an accountants pen no matter how hard you work.
I suspect the same applies to political parties. 50 years ago Labour was loyal to its supporters who returned that loyalty. Same with Conservatives. Nowadays Labour loyalty is reserved for the latest fashionable oppressed group, and I suspect the Conservatives have no idea who they support. So people who would like to express political loyalty find they are shouting into an empty void. No wonder disillusionment is widespread.
DJ - I see numerous online media comments saying that not one of the main parties is worth a vote. If Labour fails to deliver the change its voters presumably expect, then we may finally see enough discontent to change mass voting habits. Whether that will be enough, we won't know until we get there, but I doubt it.
Possibly voters aren't disillusioned at all, it's just that voter expectations keep rising, or keep recalibrating as Elon Musk once put it.
I think a lot will depend on whether the unelected blob are in favour of what Starmer wants to achieve. If they are, it will give him a little lift of popularity which could keep him afloat through the initial choppy waters. He is making some very limited promises, and he might well acquire a slight sheen of success. The vultures are circling, though, and in any case he will end up being a continuation of Sunak.
@Sam Vega.
I think you are correct that Sir IKEA will only prosper if he follows the directions of the Blob. But how lowering to find out that instead of being a Political Colossus bestriding Parliament Sir IKEA would be just the Son of Sunak.
Sam and DJ - yes, a version of Sunak is all the blob will allow in the sense that anything else will be undermined. He probably knows it too.
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