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Keir Starmer has praised Margaret Thatcher for effecting “meaningful change” in Britain in an article directly appealing to Conservative voters to switch to Labour.
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the Labour leader said Thatcher had “set loose our natural entrepreneurialism” during her time as prime minister.
“Across Britain, there are people who feel disillusioned, frustrated, angry, worried. Many of them have always voted Conservative but feel that their party has left them,” he said. “I understand that. I saw that with my own party and acted to fix it. But I also understand that many will still be uncertain about Labour. I ask them to take a look at us again.”
In the article, Starmer pointed to Labour prime ministers of the past – Tony Blair and Clement Attleee – as well as Thatcher, as examples of how politicians can effect meaningful change.
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Whilst I understand his desire to try and grab some disillusioned mild-far-right-wing votes as the Tories begin to Tory each other into irrelevance, I do worry that I’m hearing a bit too much right-wing appeasement off of this ham baboon and not enough of the “meaningful change” everyone from the centre leftwards has been waiting for for over a decade.
Holy fuck, he’s gross!
Not a great look Sir Kier. I still vote for you, because I’m not an absolute fucking moron, but stuff like this makes me feel a lot less happy about doing so.
😂 he must be silently confident with the polls to come out and say this.
Another in a long line of Labour higher ups that don’t want to be part of Labour. He wants to be a Tory.
He wants to govern. That’s always been done by attracting the center of politics.
Ah yes. Margaret fucking Thatcher. The center of politics.
Ah, come on. We both know there’s a large center of UK politics who think “well, say what you want about MT, at least she X”, where X can be something about “had a plan”, “won a war”, “showed those old party bosses”, “got rid of loss-making state businesses” etc.
I’m certainly not implying MT was at the center, merely that AT the center, some people have admiration for the Big Persons on both sides of the aisle.
Labour have already attracted the center of politics, this is an attempt to appeal to the right and will likely lose more votes than gain.
And if it does gain votes and the left coalition party is basically center and the Conservatives are going further right and there’s no chance of PR. Just yuck.
I really don’t think so.
At this point the Tories have done more to ensure labour victory than anyone else. I can’t see how this could do anything other than bolster their votes.
Ok let’s say that you’re pulled by this who are you going to vote for instead the lib Dems? they have about as much chance of achieving power as whatever ukip are currently calling themselves.
Ok let’s say that you’re pulled by this who are you going to vote for instead the lib Dems? they have about as much chance of achieving power as whatever ukip are currently calling themselves.
“What choice do you have?”
A compelling appeal to the voting public. How could that dampen turnout.
It’s called tactical voting in everyone knows about it it’s not some secret conspiracy
Tactical voting is what people do when they think a party is a lesser evil than another party. Having labour stand up and basically say “vote for Labour, we’re not Tories… but don’t worry Tories we will be continuing your policies” does not inspire a strong tactical voting block. As absurd and doomed as our 2 party voting system already is.
I keep saying he’s a tory plant.
I genuinely think it’s more a matter of it being a good idea to just garner as many votes as possible and if that means trying to appeal to the opposition then so be it.
Anyway at this point it’s not like we have any better options.
But if you become your opposition in order to do it you failed. But yeah, you don’t have options. It’s the same thing globally now, until we start making pez dispensers from the rich all we can have is full on fascism or tory-light, except translated to the local version.
Starmer is still a tory plant, I bet you in a couple of years you get proof of this
Thatcher: “You turn if you want to”
Starmer: ”Okay”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Keir Starmer has praised Margaret Thatcher for effecting “meaningful change” in Britain in an article directly appealing to Conservative voters to switch to Labour.
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the Labour leader said Thatcher had “set loose our natural entrepreneurialism” during her time as prime minister.
In the article, Starmer pointed to Labour prime ministers of the past – Tony Blair and Clement Attleee – as well as Thatcher, as examples of how politicians can effect meaningful change.
“The course of shock therapy we gave our party had one purpose: to ensure that we were once again rooted in the priorities, the concerns and the dreams of ordinary British people.
His praise of Thatcher – a divisive figure in British politics – is likely to raise eyebrows on the left of the Labour party.
Elsewhere in the article, Starmer criticised the government’s handling of Brexit, arguing it had wasted economic opportunities made possible by the split from the EU.
The original article contains 432 words, the summary contains 159 words. Saved 63%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Politician who wants to be successful wants to learn lessons from successful politician.
Oh what a surprise, the 5th columnist has revealed his true colours as a Thatcherite Quisling. “Across Britain, there are people who feel disillusioned, frustrated, angry, worried. Many of them have always voted Conservative but feel that their party has left them,"?
And across Britain, there are people who feel disillusioned, frustrated, angry, worried. Many of them have always voted Labour but feel that their party has left them,
In the words of the song, “never trust a Tory or a Tory in disguise.”
Isn’t it more that it’s worth it for labour to appeal to the opposition voters? It doesn’t necessarily mean anything. I wouldn’t worry necessarily.
It’s like traditional labour voters feel as if labor’s ultimate responsibility is to always piss off the right at all costs, as if that’s going to achieve anything. Nah, cosy up to them by all means.
welp there goes scottish labours chance of beating the snp
Pretty sure the SNP already sealed their own fate in that regard.
It’s like he’s trying to lose voters
I mean, he is trying to win votes. But the lefty crowd on Lemmy would apparently like to continue being governed by tories. In FPTP there is very few other options than pulling in the central crowd.
It’s embarrassing how poor people’s grasp of basic PR is.
This isn’t even politics, this is just incredibly basic business level PR, there is no point having enemies when they can be converted into supporters, even if you only get them to be supporters long enough to vote.
Thatcher was Labor? WTF?
Nah she was Tory.
