Tony Blair did some bad things but he also did a lot of good things, and he was at least a centrist who governed pragmatically. For instance when it became clear the NHS had problems he funded it. I am not a Labour supporter, they too have an issue with their own extremists, but they are not in power, and never were.
Whist Starmer is wet he has got common sense. Day after day in PMQ he makes sensible points about the handling of the pandemic that Boris has no answers for but lies or trying to say he is commenting with hindsight though he has been perfectly consistent. Starmer would not have sidelined all the public sector expertise in testing track and tracing, and thrown money at someone in the private sector who had no experience or competency and predictably produced too little too late . Indeed he and Munira Wilson made regular visits to the testing initiative at the Crick Institute which, funded by Cancer Research U.K. was providing thousands of tests a day in March 2020 for GOSH, the Marsden, UCLH and other North London hospitals. It provided a model for other public sector initiatives in Cambridge and Scotland, the U.K. ones had to be funded by charity because it wasn’t until September that Hancock could bring himself to acknowledge the contribution of public sector labs and provide funding. This is just one example of the incompetence and croneyism that has characterised Boris’s handling of the pandemic. It is quite clear and on record that Starmer would have locked down earlier in March and September, thus avoiding many of the deaths and economic damage caused by having to have a longer lock down to dampen down a much bigger wave. He would have listened to the Scientists not reveled in the chaos and put little value on human life.
Boris has ridden on the shoulders of populist extremists to come to power and is now using that power without morals or integrity. All those Conservatives who do have the skills and integrity to govern effectively have been thrown out or sidelined in favour of idiotic who subscribe to the populist project that is Brexit.
We are on a ship of fools.