Vassenor wrote:Parti Ouvrier wrote:Firstly, you're deluding yourself if you think Starmer will win a general election, and even if he did, Labour's shift back to the right would ensure working class disappointment and demoralisation of working class voters, paving the way for 5 more years of right-wing Tories again when the Starmer led Labour government is up for re-election. In other words, the most you'd achieve is a stop gap, and a pathetic one at that.
So what makes him 100% unelectable then?
I think you're looking at this the wrong way, let's go back a little, it was Gordon Brown that decided to campaign alongside Tories for a No vote (they should have boycotted the referendum), on the Scottish question, where did it get Labour? The result was Labour lost Scotland, the Tory strategy worked to split the working class and Labour vote, and this happened again in 2016. Class lines were blurred again and recently Starmer even called for another referendum, and was part of the reason for doing badly in the election, this is your supposed tactical genius, good luck with that! Although, I have to say, I don't subscribe to the electability illusion anyway, its a road to opportunism and concessions.