Quote Originally Posted by Vindec View Post
I'm not against former Prime Minister's making money after they leave office. Cameron resigned when he was 50. What is he supposed to do with the rest of his life? Cameron might have chosen the wrong company to get into bed with but at that time I don't think anyone was suggesting that Greensill would go bust. What I don't get is that Starmer and Co spent the recent election banging on about the wallpaper in Number 10 at a time when there were massive issues to address such as the future of the NHS, the aftermath of the pandemic and the economic recovery. Labour went into the recent elections with no policy that stuck and the electorate in England agreed although the usual happened in Wales where virtually anyone wearing a red rosette can get elected. To this day I can't say what Labour stands for under Starmer.
I don’t think the issue is Cameron earning something for himself after being PM, but he had what seemed to be an immediate line through to Cabinet members denied to almost everyone else.

I think one of their beloved focus groups might have picked up on “Tory sleaze” for Labour. I thought it was a valid issue to raise (although the focus on wallpaper became counter productive it seemed to me), but I agree that there needed to be more than the one string to Labour’s bow when it came to Hartlepool. I’ve some sympathy with Starmer because it’s been awkward for him to be too critical of theGovernment over the past year, but that also means that there was an opportunity for more attention to be paid to what Labour had to offer, but, instead, there was just more infighting and picking an arch Remainer to be their candidate at Hartlepool of all places qualifies as a schoolboy error.