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Analysis: Why Farage is outperforming Starmer in the battle for working-class voters
(www.theguardian.com)
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The media love Farage and hate Starmer. The media is predominantly right wing, so it's no surprise.
Starmer – while the head of a party that has increased workers rights, nationalised rail/steel/Great British Energy, introduced VAT on private schooling, massively increased minimum wage for many, bringing the NHS back into elected official's control, expanded free school meals, northern infrastructure improvements, etc – is pretty centrist, so many natural Labour voters won't like him either.
Add to that how strong a voting bloc pensioners are and the scrapping of WFA pissing them off.
It doesn't help that Labour is, for the most part, doing things that will take a long time to see any major positive effects from. Building out nuclear and renewables won't help much in the immediate term. Nor will planning permission changes, NHS changes, infrastructure/public transport improvements, etc.
On the one hand I'm glad to have a government that's doing some forward thinking for once, but Starmer needs some wins fast otherwise this won't get any better.