snapdragon wrote:Integrity matters. Or it should.
No integrity is an unaffordable luxury in a first past the post two party system. Remember the Liberal Democrats were the first major party to support an in / out referendum. The reason they did this was because they were so adamantly opposed to giving the British people a vote on the Lisbon treaty. The idiots in the Lib Dems and Labour then opposed Cameron when he announced his intention to hold an in out referendum in 2013. And then the Liberals and the Left were absolutely determined that UKIP should not win a seat. They were determined to keep the right vote united. This allowed Cameron to get his majority in 2015. Having managed to keep the right united, lose the General Election, the idiots now promised to accept the referendum result making them responsible for implementing this wild experiment.
Starmer used Brexit to forge his route to the leadership. Being the party of Remain helped the Lib Dem come back, but then when Starmer forced Labour to become yet another hard remain party over the wisdom of Jeremy Corbyn, the result should have been obvious to anyone with half a brain. Four parties, Labour, Lib Dem, Greens and SNP all competing for the second referendum voters. Second referendum vs get Brexit done, um I wonder how that one's going to play out?
I don't think Starmer's stupid, just evil. Having managed to single handedly engineer the greatest defeat in Labour's history, Starmer promptly dropped EU membership like a stone.
Following Boris was always going to be a hard act to follow. but Labour have done it. they've managed to find a politician with less integrity than Johnson.
For me I'm going to invoke zero tolerance again. Its like with Churchill. the left whine on about how he was a racist an imperialist and a war criminal. Churchill only became Prime Minister because Labour demanded it. The majority of the Conservative MPs didn't want him. its the same with Boris. Tory MPs didn't want him. Half of them probably detested him.
The Tory Parliamentary Labour Party was probably the place in the country which loved Boris least. No its time for the left to look in the mirror and ask whose really responsible for making him Prime minister.