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To think Keir Starmer will be Labour leader before the end of the year

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PetallyTyrants · 29/03/2017 12:31

and PM at the next General Election

To think Keir Starmer will be Labour leader before the end of the year
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Werkzallhourz · 29/03/2017 13:31

I hope not.

For various reasons, I know quite a bit about Starmer tactics and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He made some very political decisions as DPP, and they have been extremely damaging to the public's trust.

He's one of these that pushes an agenda through what should be a nonpartisan institution and fails to think of the wider cultural, social and community implications and consequences.

I have to be honest and say Corbyn is better. To be fair, I'm starting to appreciate Corbyn (I never thought I would say that) but he's brought a certain something to British politics. I know he appears hopeless as an opposition leader in the conventional sense from a typical Westminster perspective, but what he has is valuable.

It's his priorities, I think. He brings it back to base. Yes, we are going through Brexit and Article 50 has been declared, but on the ground, none of this means shit if police morale is so low that it constitutes the breakdown of our system of law and order.

misspriggy · 29/03/2017 12:53

No prosecutions of any members of the sex-grooming gangs in Rotherham, Doncaster, Rochdale etc while he was DPP.

So I hope not.

SemiPermanent · 29/03/2017 12:53

Hope not.
He's beyond awful.

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PetallyTyrants · 29/03/2017 12:42

There would need to be a huge recruitment drive to get enough new Labour Party members to elect him - it's doable!

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WhatWouldKeanuDo · 29/03/2017 12:36

Would he have any support within the Labour party membership anyway?

Figgygal · 29/03/2017 12:35

Cant be any worse than who is there now!!

really wanna know what Jeremy Corbyn thinks he's playing at today. Article 50 is triggered it is a monumental day in British political history and he is challenging May on school funding and police morale at Prime Minister questions. The man is a fucking joke and this Country is left without any effective opposition.

WhatWouldKeanuDo · 29/03/2017 12:33

I hope not.

MaximumVolume · 29/03/2017 12:32

I hope so!

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