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Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale | Rafael Behr
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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Second sentence here is false and also cowardly. Getting trashed in the 2026 elections means losing lots of peole who do the groundwork of fighting elections.
Getting a new leader will probably not fix anything though. Starmer's incredibly unpopularity isn't because it's Starmer, it's because he's the Prime Minister and, worse than that, the Labour Prime Minister.
I mean, he's now just about the most unpopular PM ever, so it's safe to say there's something worse than usual going on.
Yeah we have a combined COVID and Ukraine inflation bomb after 14 years of underinvestment...
I mean look at Starmer's missteps compared to the missteps of all the Tory PMs. Somehow Starmer is less popular than all of them. I think it's therefore safe to say that his unpopularity is not mostly due to things he's doing wrong, because in spite of it all, he's still doing better than any recent Tory leader.