Starmer is he toast

Andy Burnham?

I am not convinced that the analysis is that straightforward.
The concept that the basis of the Labour Party is a "Working Class" section of society is no longer true. Does the working class even exist anymore?
Certainly not if one considers the original solutions to working class issues such as poverty, education, housing and health care provision.
Those solutions were based upon the "collective", indeed altruism. Can we claim that today?
My personal belief is that the 1980s under Thatcher was very successful in destroying those concepts. Blair / Brown adapted the Labour Party message to accept that reality but managed to embrace the individual sense of "right" and liberalism that is still there.
To counter this successful mix, the children of Thatcher had to find something else to regain power. Enter nationalism. Invoking Patriotism. As Samuel Johnson said so famously, "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"

Now we have the entitled scoundrel in power, now we have the flags everywhere with language to suit.
And where does this message hit home the most? Not in areas of the country that have done well out of the free market, (and Single Market), draw a line from north Essex down to Bristol as crude demarcation line. 
North of that line health outcomes are worse, housing standards are worse, unemployment is worse. Educational achievements are worse. The success and dominance of the South East led to a hopelessly distorted housing market made social mobility almost impossible.

The has led to the stupidly named "Red Wall". Behind that wall lay a disgruntled population, often sneered at and told that their kids were massively under achieving in education, implying that it was their fault. Add austerity which damaged this segment of the population the most.

The Tories cannot admit any of this without confronting their own history. So they turn to nationalism, Brexit being the point man in policy.

So to Starmer.

If Labour is to successfully challenge this lot, they are going to have to be far more aggressive in detailing what the Tories have done. in so doing they may well lose the left wing of the party supported by the Unions if they do not adopt a classic socialist solution. But so what. Because they will never win on that basis anyway. The leader is forensic and is more than capable of pulling the Tory legacy to pieces. In reality its quite easy. But he has to recognise the mistakes of the Labour Party in policy terms, face down internal dissent and present workable solutions that address the issues facing voters  behind the red wall, convincing them that flag waving doesn't actually cut it.

Another year of piddling about around the edges will lead to the eventual demise of the Labour Party as an effective force in our political system.

So we will end up with a single party state, with an entitled establishment ruling under the cloak of democracy.

Back to the future anyone?

Yes Clive.

Then, today, we have this.

www.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/06/plans-for-50-funding-cut-to-arts-subjects-at-universities-catastrophic

Cannot have those pesky proletariat thinking outside the box can we.

Tow the line that's what benign dictators want.

Because he drinks pints and there’s that video of him rugby tackling someone in a charity football match 15 years ago.

Yep

fee.org/articles/fa-hayek-on-the-supreme-rule-that-separates-collectivism-from-individualism/

That w**ker Marvin Rees in again.

So his " I take full responsibility for the results" really meant "I don't and it's all your fault Angela"

Ffs Starmer

Since Tories came to power:

> 200,000 nurses quit the NHS
> Justice spending down 25%
> Police numbers down 21,732
> Highest taxes since 1950s
> Homelessness up 250%

And, me old mucker, what exactly are you intending to "learn"