[davidjay]

I really don't understand the hatred for Starmer, every other Labour leader I can see how they could rub some people up the wrong way either through policy or personality.
But Starmer?
I keep seeing vox pops of people calling him the worst PM ever but then, when invited to elaborate, they just come out with platitudes like, "everything" or "he's destroyed this country" and details there are none.

Because that's what they're told.

[Boiler]

These cretins seriously think he's worse than Liz Truss?

FMR...

[Abernathy]

I really don't understand the hatred for Starmer, every other Labour leader I can see how they could rub some people up the wrong way either through policy or personality.
But Starmer?
I keep seeing vox pops of people calling him the worst PM ever but then, when invited to elaborate, they just come out with platitudes like, "everything" or "he's destroyed this country" and details there are none.

It’s a negative feedback loop. People, particularly people who don’t generally pay much attention to matters political, are fed a constant, relentless diet of news and comment by multiple hostile right-wing news media outlets telling them that Keir Starmer is the worst PM ever (which he just isn’t) so that it takes on in their minds the status of accepted, unchallenged fact. Then a vox pop interviewer comes along. …..

[Tubby Isaacs]

Not just rightwing media. The Guardian frames everything that they can find a campaigner against as being the worst ever.

[Andy McDandy]

Because they know that drama sells. "Government doing OK considering the circumstances" isn't news, at least not in the sense of selling "Jones dead" to people who have no idea who Jones was, or the Murdochian "anything that makes you go gee whiz".