Care Starmer is the best of his party

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At this time last year, the political expert and right -back Gary Neville, who feeds on the spoon of Mr. Kiir Starmer while the couple was wandering in the lake area. The craftsmanship in the conversation garden, in Wardzworth Balad, before the general elections: as a preparation for high positions, did not produce seriousness.

I can’t think about a government that is less scrutinized in 2024. Of course, it melted in contact with reality. The latest surrender to Starmer to pressure from the left is to rewrite a bill to cancel the luxury that the harsh parliament members believed. (The revised version released a vote on Tuesday.) The same thing did with a scheme to reduce the advantages of retirement last month. He has withdraw Fake feelings about migration are supposed to be expressed a few weeks ago.

Starmer is blamed for chaos, and it should be. He has the intelligence and rate of prime minister, but not the character. Whether against Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the party or against ideological identity policy Known as Woke, the courage colleagues were allowed to lead the battle and then finally swept as they were with them all the time. He ruled in this spirit.

If there is nothing else, the fragility of Starmer must end from the idea that the difficult start in life must necessarily take away someone for adversity yet. Yes, shock This effect can be. But it can also implant the opposition feature: an increased sensitivity, which is a concept of volunteering for more struggle. The politicians whom you covered are the least conflict – Donald Trump, which he enjoys, and David Cameron, who barely noticed it – were pampered as young people. Those of us are from the closest Starmer than the end of Cameron. One of the things may wish the old cup to be correct, and this pressure makes diamonds etc., but exceptions to this rule in public life are very blatant.

What can be said to Curtain? At least one thing. He is better than his party. A large number of labor representatives and activists of the Labor Party are almost unable to make difficult choices, about public funds in particular. The bill of benefits of Britain’s disease contributes to the rise in the country’s debts, low growth and tax burden. Among all ways to reduce this – such as cutting payments or reducing eligibility – nothing is painful. Perhaps this particular reform was offended in its details. But do not assume that exhaustion Representatives would have supported another one that made equivalent savings.

The most likely alternative to Starmer within employment is more taxes and more debts to finance more (non -produced) spending. And end even nominal attempts to improve the efficiency of the public sector. The government has a plan to reform NHS, which includes mandatory things about the use of computers a lot. I expect U-U-or on in the spring of 2026. The labor movement will not support anything dangerous to the unions for the benefit of patients.

Even Tony Blair struggled to obtain modest reforms in the public sector after his party, and he served as cash from political natural spending as a sweetest. Starmer has no chance. This is a 14 -year -old party to blame everything for conservative sadists. He was encouraged in the story of children through a series of leaders who spent their entire ideas live in a soft or strong left -wing cocoon, which is the worst.

If it is a problem lower than his party, it is Rachel Reeves. At any time, she was really convinced as a cabinet consultant. But at least it has a passing interest in the basic function of financial control. If the taxpayers know the number of appeals that they must bear in exchange for their money, the deputies are morally extorted or the NGOs with which they are shrouded, they are afraid to remove them. Go ahead and ridicule “Rachel of accounts”, but it may be the last thumb in the dam.

This apology cannot be paid away from work away. If there is anything, then the weakness of the curtain is not prohibited. Sufficiently is hardly the MAUDLIN tone in the interviews. There is a justification for some of his moods: hideous events have shocked him recently. The rest appears to be around the general roughness of politics. When Starmer is tracked who was forced to do so, he must have a strict word.

But his policies, during the few weeks that continue, indicate that he better understands some facts than his colleagues. Britain does not return to its performance before 2008, which owes a lot of funny money in the city, increased public spending and the old influence of the side repairs of Al -Darashit now in decline or partially met it elsewhere. The country did not manage a Budget surplus Since the beginning of the millennium. You cannot borrow much more without risking invested confidence, or imposing taxes much more without weighing incentives. There is no way out that does not involve a more efficient condition.

Starmer is very weak so that this change is not forgotten. Many of his party are very dark so that he does not see it. From functional imbalance, it is less criminal. It is often said in defense of work now that it is not the movement of Corbinnett, “just” is a soft left. Well, the soft left leaves the work that Britain should do.

By the way, if taxes rise to fill the hole that the Labor Party representatives have just opened by neutralizing the discounts in the field of luxury and retirees, and voters Seton, then these deputies will stand beside Starmer and Reeves, right? This is the logical and shocking effects of their behavior, certainly? Do not disappoint, comrades.

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