Keir Starmer’s ‘reset’ was just more slop |
I wish I’d invested in podiums back in the day. They have become a fixture of British politics of late, a symbol of the chaos and incompetence that has marked our government for some time. Every time our leaders fall short, the podium is wheeled out and a ‘reset’ or resignation is announced and the whole cycle of malice and incompetence begins again. Good for the podium producers, exhausting for the rest of us.
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Starmer’s podium is a white plastic number, a little like an upside-down bathroom bin. It appeared not outside Downing Street but in an anonymous room with some wonky Labour branding in it. Here – in a suitably Wernham Hogg like setting – Starmer was going to ‘make the speech of his political life’ or, we might add, death.
Despite a leadership challenge from Skippy the Kangaroo, the mysteriously antipodean MP for Wood Green Catherine West, it soon became clear that Starmer was here to fight on. He was introduced by an identikit Red Wall MP whose face we will next see in a northern leisure centre at 3 a.m. as the returning officer announces that she’s lost her deposit. The Labour party, she said, ‘is one of the greatest vehicles for changing the lives of working people this country has ever known’. Few people would now disagree with that, but they might quibble on whether those lives have been changed, especially in recent years, for the better.
There was lots of cheering and whooping for........