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Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' (www.thecanary.co)

submitted 3 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Maybe things can't only get better for Keir Starmer, as he is shamed with the latest polling just as the Labour conference begins

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[–] JiffyBag@feddit.org 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

I feel like people don't like him because he's as dull as dishwater. I am not a fan of Kier's politics, but I think he's practical and level headed. Following 14 years of a Tory shit show - I'm suprised people aren't happy with having someone like that in the job and winning some brownie points.

The biggest mistake he's making is that people expected a bit of a shift to oppose what the Conservatives were offering but instead he's also trying to appeal to the right of politics through a lurch to the right. He's not charasmatic or radical enough for that to succeed, so has pushed away the left only to fail to win over the right. Nobody likes him.

[–] hello_cruel_world@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

The biggest mistake he's making is that people expected a bit of a shift to oppose what the Conservatives were offering

I think it might be the flip flopping, and not really knowing what direction he needs to take the country.

One minute it's this, next it's that. His dilly dallying with raynor when it was obvious her tenure was unsustainable. Then bringing in deeply unpopular policies like the OSA and digital id cards.

We have systems in place to counter illegal working. Why do we need the other id? We don't. It's a badly thought out rehash of what Blair was pushing in the naughties.

Then we have what most people perceive to be a two tier justice system, and you can start to see why he's unpopular.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

OSA was brought in by the tories. It's full name is even the Online Safety Act 2023

[–] hello_cruel_world@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

OSA was brought in by the tories.

You know that, i know that. But from the publics perception the act came in while labour where in power. And that's all that matters.

You could make a solid argument that it was done deliberately, to discredit the next government as the tories knew it wouldn''t be them.

Labour could have turned round and said that the rules where brought in by the last government. But no, they then doubled down on it and started calling opponents of the act nonces.

So from the lay persons perspective, labour bought it in, and then called everyone a nonce.

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