The mood of the explicit labor party and confrontation can be the thing that saves this government Andy Picky
CThe height can liberate governments. It collapses in popularity, huge dilemmas about public spending, emergency in foreign policy, a poll of opponents and the possibility of losing the office: all of them can persuade them even cautious departments to change their direction and speech – or simply say more clearly why they are in power.
Politicians are sometimes more daring. It is commonly seen as always at the expense and spontaneity, some of which are actually suffering to stop liquidating their general words and finally talking about their minds. At this week’s work conference, margin meetings were refreshing, and sometimes amazingly, full of ministers, deputies and new government advisers who speak frankly about government problems and the name of modern politics.
Even Business Minister, Peter Kyle, who is usually intelligent and unpredictable in an unprecedented way, at an event hosted by the Labor Party together that “the public knows that we have a big problem in the economy”, and that “our policy is going through turmoil.” After 15 months of judgment as if he had enough time and the public’s interest in reducing and systematically, the work turns into a more urgent and perhaps more realistic approach.
The most famous example of the British government that uses crises to re -invent itself remains Margaret Tischer. At a similar stage in her life, in 1981, she lost More than a third From its original support. Like the Kiir Starmer government, it was struggling to revive the economy, control inflation, raise taxes, and prevent riots. Then Argentina recklessly Falklands invaded in 1982And Tatcher has given an opportunity to restart the presidency of excellence as a rude and strong national project.
While there are countless flags and national phrases at the Labor Party conference, a comfortable symbolic and symbolic war feels unlikely in the world’s most armed world and geological chaos. It can be said that Starmer is in a hole larger than Tascher in 1981. From 34 % to About 20 %However, I remembered that during the first days of the campaign, in May 2024, Work was 45 %. Its decline may be unprecedented, in speed and size, in the history of the elected British governments.
The Labor Party crisis in electoral, ethical and financial credibility now caused a largely disciplined party to criticize itself, in ways that could help save the government – or accelerate its end. Andy Bornham’s invitation to get more left, but the administration on a large scale, dominated the waiting lists of conference events, despite all the confident assurances of Starmer’s loyalists that the mayor of the Greater Manchester municipality had detonated his leadership chances.
However, away from its manifestations full of marginal shapes, there were many other cashiers who were surprised. Bassetlaw, Joe White, was called Er Miliband Minister Ed Miliband that the clean power would reduce energy bills within a few years “full nonsense” – ignoring his high position with environmentalists and workers’ members.
At the same event, Peter Heman said, until last year, the main consultant of Starmer, that the current “era of insecurity” cannot be faced by the government of “security” – a political issue that has been preferred for a long time by Starmer and the advisor, Rachel Reeves – because voters no longer believe that politicians can provide it. Instead, Heman’s argue, the government must ensure that the voters were “connected” to the skills of dealing with an unstable world.
Single loudspeakers in another place provided more diagnoses and left -wing solutions. “The government should stop” looting our common assets “through specialized facilities and private contractors for public services. Said. “Voters of the working class have left -wing economic values,” and the government must prefer “to work on capital.” Even while the leadership of Jeremy Corbin, which is supposed to erase the awareness of the Labor Party, was rarely hearing such a pro -workers language.
What may arise from an explicit and confrontation new mood? Late attacks, but welcoming the United Kingdom by Starmer and its ministers indicates that the switch is not just a passing way from the margin of the conference. But there is a risk that the new mixture of policies and attitudes – is more economical for equality, however continued respect towards financial markets; Entalliated racism, however, the increasing tyranny towards immigrants-will simply produce chaos.
As a person who reached the intense tribal House of Representatives relatively late in life, and his personal history is characterized by deprivation and distinction, which believes in efficiency instead of ideology, Starmer tends to be left and right at the same time. This is not necessarily weak. Many voters have a selective and contradictory policy. But often, “the ruling is the choice”, as the French Prime Minister placed in the fifties Pierre Mendes Ferns.
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The budget for next month will be one of this moment. Other elections will be in the coming May for Scottish and Wallsian parliaments and many of the mayors and councils of the British, when the remaining party strongholds need a very coherent and focused labor campaign if they do not fall. “All over this country,” he said The new Interior Minister, Shabana MahmoudIn her speech at the conference, “People feel that things are out of control.”
If the Labor Party fails to produce such a campaign in just seven months, panic may be entered, and fermentation may turn at this week’s conference to the first stage of the post -stars era. In addition to the aspirations of Burnham, the conference was also demonstrating through the possible aspirations of Mahmoud, Kyle, the Minister of Health, Wes Streeting, and Angela Rayner, which feels the emergence of its emergence already temporarily.
Whether under Starmer or another person, it can save more frankness and openness of the government, rather than making it appear divided by fatal. At least this week, the prime minister appears to be active. The Labor Party has some decent policies, and most of its potential successors are strong conductors. With the weakest conservatives of contracts, reform with no experience in waiting and then competing in the general elections as a favorite-as it appears with the gentle skin of the Labor Party attacks-it may be difficult for it to work more to re-election than it seems now.
But after 14 years of the catastrophic government of the Conservative Party, and with many voters who still want to get a widespread left country, pressure on a second term will not be a victory for work.