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I’m sure he will, Gurny, but the problem for Labour is that the party’s split just as much as the Tories when it comes to Brexit and the centre versus the left. It’s just been kept under wraps, but sooner or later it will all come out into the open. Starmer knows he has to support Brexit and avoid the party lurching back to the left to win the election. He also knows that many in the traditional Labour heartland voted for Brexit.
He’s also facing huge problems with the unions. While everyone sympathises with workers, me included, the strikes have been designed to create maximum disruption at a time when people are struggling on all fronts. On top of that many people took a huge financial hit during the pandemic while many of those going on strike received full pay. A chap who does work for us used to be a paramedic and he’s furious with the NHS nurses and ambulance drivers for going on strike, especially given he’s now looking after his wife who has terminal cancer.
The question is how Starmer balances all of this. At the moment it’s easy because the Tories are in such poor shape, but as the election gets nearer he’s going to have to make his policies clear and many of them simply won’t please everyone.
How very novel, strikers pick a time when it’ll have maximum effect, next time perhapsthey should do it when no one will notice. As for your paramedic friend tell him they’ve never had it so easy, most shifts now involve at most two jobs if they’re ‘lucky’, the rest of their time is sat waiting in a queue to admit patients to a&e. My paramedic friend is sick to the back teeth with it, as in his words ‘that’s not what I signed up for’. Fear not though Rishi has a plan, much like all those of the past decade.