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I don't agree about Starmer, he's quite often criticised by posters on here who appear to be left of centre to me (quite often, rightly so in my opinion - I was happy to see him become Labour leader because he has an air of competence to him, a quality sadly lacking in Parliament these days I feel, but I accept now that's not enough. As you say, Starmer and his party, are suffering because they lack a "big idea" which will resonate with voters).
People on the left tend to be far more critical of their own than people on the right are in my experience (in public anyway) - something that very often puts parties of the left at a disadvantage in a world where so much is against them already. So, I'm not sure that they are as loyal to the Labour party as people on the right tend to be to the Conservatives.
This Parliament has been dominated by Covid so far and this Government has to be primarily judged by how they've coped with it. So, while I accept and share some of misgivings many had against Corbyn, I must ask would we really be worse off now if he and his party had won in December 2019? The one shining light this Government can point to in the fight against the virus is the vaccine program which has transformed lives to a large extent, but would a Labour Government have done anything different, and detrimental, to what the Tories have done when it comes to vaccination? I doubt it very much, in fact, I would say that there would have been less pressure from the backbench's making the argument for business over people for Corbyn than there has been for Johnson.
Would Labour have declined to bring in a furlough scheme? Surely not, the whole concept of furloughing is a left of centre one.
Once you account for the vaccine programme and furloughing, what is there that this Government has done when it comes to Covid that can be deemed a success? While I disagree with Starmer's attempts to pass off the Delta variant as the Johnson variant because it would have got here eventually anyway, you have to wonder about the inconsistencies between how the UK Government treated India and how they treated Pakistan and Bangladesh in the spring - not for the first time, the suspicion is that Government policy in the pandemic has been influenced by the possibility of personal gain and/or cronyism.
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People on the left tend to be far more critical of their own than people on the right are in my experience (in public anyway) - something that very often puts parties of the left at a disadvantage in a world where so much is against them already. So, I'm not sure that they are as loyal to the Labour party as people on the right tend to be to the Conservatives.
This Parliament has been dominated by Covid so far and this Government has to be primarily judged by how they've coped with it. So, while I accept and share some of misgivings many had against Corbyn, I must ask would we really be worse off now if he and his party had won in December 2019? The one shining light this Government can point to in the fight against the virus is the vaccine program which has transformed lives to a large extent, but would a Labour Government have done anything different, and detrimental, to what the Tories have done when it comes to vaccination? I doubt it very much, in fact, I would say that there would have been less pressure from the backbench's making the argument for business over people for Corbyn than there has been for Johnson.
Would Labour have declined to bring in a furlough scheme? Surely not, the whole concept of furloughing is a left of centre one.
Once you account for the vaccine programme and furloughing, what is there that this Government has done when it comes to Covid that can be deemed a success? While I disagree with Starmer's attempts to pass off the Delta variant as the Johnson variant because it would have got here eventually anyway, you have to wonder about the inconsistencies between how the UK Government treated India and how they treated Pakistan and Bangladesh in the spring - not for the first time, the suspicion is that Government policy in the pandemic has been influenced by the possibility of personal gain and/or cronyism.
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