Starmer announces resignation as prime minister and leader of the Labour party
19 hours ago by erusuoyera to c/uk_politics
Under his tenure:
- terrorism laws have been exploited to criminalise property damage and the holding of signs by pensioners
- the nation's medical records have been sold off to the known foreign fascist controlled private company Palantir
- our freedoms on the internet have been curtailed
- he appointed a known friend of a paedophile and twice previously disgraced minister as US ambassador despite vetting saying not to
- austerity has continued
- the broken workfare (not welfare) system has continued
- the UK has continued to supply weapons and intelligence to a genocidal state
- trial by jury is looking likely to be abolished
- private water is still a fucking disgrace with little done to remedy it
He's a wet blanket who's incapable of commanding a cabinet, and spends more time making stupid TikToks like he's on the campaign trail than doing anything of substance. His actions, cabinet, and command of that cabinet, contradict everything he says he stands for.
Meanwhile the railways are getting nationalised, we finally have meaningful rental reform, and have stuck to green commitments.
Trial by jury is likely to be abolished
False.
Criminalise property damage
Is already criminal
Anyone can focus on the bad things and write lies. That's what the media does, and what you've done. It'll be the same with the next guy.
The railways were effectively nationalised in 2020 with the ending of franchising and switch to National Rail Contracts , and Great British Railways has its origin in 2018 during May’s government.
The implementation was Starmer’s, but it was more of a rubber stamping of previous Tory policy.
Railway nationalisation needed new legislation this parliament to enact it. If we're blaming Starmer for "continuing austerity" (despite what he's done to reverse it, like lifting the two child benefit cap) and crediting the Tories for rail nationalisation, then I have to ask who's side we're on.
It's one thing when it's the media doing this kind of mud-dragging, another when it's the supposed left-wing comments section of Lemmy.
How long will you be supporting your current darling - be that Burnham or someone else, should they get into power? How long will it take you to credit all their successes to someone else, all the failures of the country and the world to them, and focus on the latter to the exclusion of all else?
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Maybe I've not been playing close enough attention to politics, but I'm not entirely sure what he's done so wrong to warrant this. He's very middle of the road, hardly wowing everyone, but hardly very scandalous either (well, apart from appointing Mandelson I guess). Is this now just going to become the norm, changing PM's every year?
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