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Boiler wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2026 9:41 pm I hope Starmer survives, but I think he may have used up all his political lives. Kreuzy has summed it up well: a decent man in a now-indecent world. Announcement over the weekend? Hope not.

Competent technocrat with integrity is Starmer's USP and a Labour PM doesn't get many free passes.
For those of us politically engaged we're
desperately interested in policy that betters lives so dull competence that delivers is all we ask for in a leader. But that's not enough for most people and maybe it never was. Harold Wilson and Ken Livingstone for eg were nerdy policy wonks who had to invent a cheeky chappy persona to get their hands on power to carry out their real passions. Like reorganising bus routes and centralising supply chains in the manufacturing sector. See also Ed Miliband but he's given up trying to be one of the lads and now just gets on with his mission. And bollocks to you all if you don't like it. Carry on Ed.