(From my FB)
Starmer's statement today is pathetic, dangerously pathetic and proof of his inability to oppose this government meaningfully. Shut zoos? Why not go the whole hog and shut the owl sanctuaries too? He should have been calling for the advice of scientists, teachers' unions to be followed days ago and for schools to be shut indefinitely, which they will clearly have to be. He's been afraid to, however, because, I gravely suspect, he doesn't want to be doing anything so Red Wall voter-displeasing as being pro-teacher, or worse, pro-union.
The upward spike on the infection graph is practically vertical but he's still hawing about the imperative to keep schools open, no ifs, no buts, barely distinguishable from Johnson in his denial of reality for political reasons. His rictus uselessness, his craven submission to the bureaucratic right wing of the Labour party is becoming impossible to ignore and it will cost lives. The failure of the Tories isn't just about incompetence; it's ideological but he can't call them out on that because he doesn't want to do ideology, that might smack of the socialism he professed to be so fond of when making his pitch as leader. Instead, he comes across like a competing estate agent. Face it, we've been sold a pup. Me too - I voted for him.
Starmer's statement today is pathetic, dangerously pathetic and proof of his inability to oppose this government meaningfully. Shut zoos? Why not go the whole hog and shut the owl sanctuaries too? He should have been calling for the advice of scientists, teachers' unions to be followed days ago and for schools to be shut indefinitely, which they will clearly have to be. He's been afraid to, however, because, I gravely suspect, he doesn't want to be doing anything so Red Wall voter-displeasing as being pro-teacher, or worse, pro-union.
The upward spike on the infection graph is practically vertical but he's still hawing about the imperative to keep schools open, no ifs, no buts, barely distinguishable from Johnson in his denial of reality for political reasons. His rictus uselessness, his craven submission to the bureaucratic right wing of the Labour party is becoming impossible to ignore and it will cost lives. The failure of the Tories isn't just about incompetence; it's ideological but he can't call them out on that because he doesn't want to do ideology, that might smack of the socialism he professed to be so fond of when making his pitch as leader. Instead, he comes across like a competing estate agent. Face it, we've been sold a pup. Me too - I voted for him.
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