Of course he is, the left don't like Starmer because he's a wolf and the right don't like him because he's wearing sheep's clothing.
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Calling Starmer a wolf does him too much credit. At best, he's a caterpillar being piloted by the cordyceps that is Morgan McSweeney.
And let's not forget, he's just so dull, uninspired and uninspiring.
to be fair everything is more popular than starmer
Well he lost two elections with more voter then Keith won one.
But he seems unable to accept he only won. Because more people opposed hi opponents then him. Trying gain from those voters rather then the ones refusing to vote for him. Is just lazy.
Not to mention a desperate attempt to ignore democracy. And much of his own party. His current anti migraint negativity. And disability discrimination. Dose not have a strong following in his party members.
Corbyn was also trying to navigate Brexit for those two elections and anything less than a full-throated insistence on parroting "Brexit means Brexit" turned the pro-Brexit crowd away, while the anti-Brexit crowd turned away in advance because he was in favour of it. He bottled it before that second election he lost and tried to get the anti-Brexit crowd back on board and just alienated the pro-Brexit crowd
Yes and know. I remember many rejecting Corbyn for not ignoring Brexit. The party members were very split over the subject.
I don't think there was a way to win it. The remainers knew it was electoral suicide to ignore Brexit, but would attack him until he moved to that position.
I agree, there probably wasn't really a winning move for him, but he still panicked after the European elections that year and decided to push the idea of a second referendum more and that definitely killed whatever chance he had in that last election
Herpes also more popular than Starmer.
This is where Corbyn always gets it wrong. Flash in the pan popularity doesn't translate into votes. He's going to get all excited again and then loose... again. Not saying the sun shines out of any particular orifice of Starmers, but you've got to have an actual plan that makes sense to get into power. Right now it's all soundbites and potshots. What are you ACTUALLY going to do Jeremy? This country needs help, not more words.