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Isn’t this just the painful road to becoming electable in the 2020s?
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Maybe it's because I'm not a housewife in Basingstoke or a Workington Man, and maybe he doesn't seem like a vacuous flannel to them.
It might well be this. My mother ( who, for context, currently thinks that Johnson is making a "good effort of a difficult job") likes Starmer. She's a Blair era swing voter who you couldn't have paid to vote for Corbyn, she will vote for Starmer.
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christianSpaceman
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I think my main problem with Starmer here isn't necessarily that he's taken the wrong approach (though he definitely should have been a bit more forceful even if his main message is that now is not the time.
It just really seems like everything he says has been filtered through focus groups and image consultants rather actually being genuine or honest, and I don't find him that credible.
Maybe it's because I'm not a housewife in Basingstoke or a Workington Man, and maybe he doesn't seem like a vacuous flannel to them.
But surely they can tell that a union flag doesn't replace a policy and a bit of backbone?