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Where did it go wrong for Labor and Sir Keir Starmer? Telegraph readers have their say

A disastrous defeat in the Hartlepool by-elections and the loss of over 300 English council seats in last week’s local elections prompted an immediate reshuffle in Sir Keir Starmer’s Labor squad. Despite the sudden reshuffle, there are warnings of a leadership challenge for the Labor leader, while others have suggested Mr Starmer is the cause of the Labor crisis, not the solution. Where has it gone wrong for Labor and can the party bounce back under Sir Keir Starmer? Read on for our readers’ best talking points, and share your own perspective in the comments section. “Work is so far from reality” @Mark Chisholm: “I am from the North East. My family were miners, shipyard workers and factory workers. All strong workers, some of whom were delegates trade unions. ” I work in offshore construction. industry – possibly the last bastion of the old-fashioned male work environment with many men working there in the shipyards and heavy welding companies of yesteryear. In my office right now there is a guy from Newcastle who is one of our welding inspectors. “And none of them understand the Labor Party anymore. With gritted teeth, it is true that they all said they would not vote for them because they are no longer a party that represents the working class. non-Londoner. The guy with me last voted for the Tories – the first in his life. “Labor has allowed itself to be the party of the awakened student left. Working men and women watch these talking people justice with utter amazement at their estrangement from reality. These normal people are angry at how their party has been taken over by radicals who despise the people they are supposed to represent. Labor is the party of the affluent media crowd in Notting Hill, not the average worker trying to get by. “The Tory Party is just more in tune with most Brits.” “No unified politics” @Peter Williman: “Malheureus For them, the Labor Party cannot articulate a unified set of policies. ” It’s torn between awakened insignificance and outdated positions on the realities, hopes and needs of ‘workers’ and people. This time. “‘Starmer should have the skills to tear Boris apart’ @Andrew Turner:” On the paper, Starmer should have destroyed Boris, an ex-QC and ex-Director of Public Prosecutions, he should have had the skills to set traps in Question Time and tear Boris apart. ”The fact that he didn’t hasn’t shown how proud Britain is about Brexit and the vaccine rollout, how Britain rejects woken politicians and finally how Boris has a Teflon skin that covers every square inch of his body. “” Starmer. is the man of yesterday “@Paul Hughes:” For decades we have had politicians who have had easy lives. A political career was easy money: Oxbridge, PPE or the law, political assistants, a safe seat, a back bench then a front bench and when it was your turn, the government. Suddenly the country needs proper leadership and real bold decision-making, which we haven’t seen in decades. “Brexit changed everything, and Covid demanded better from our politicians. The international political landscape is changing rapidly. Boris is a quick learner, but Starmer was already the man of yesterday when he was elected leader of the Labor Party.” “No Leader” @Stuart Wilson: “Starmer is not a leader. He is a professional lawyer who is more interested in trying to cheat Johnson at the shipping box than doing anything to move the business forward. country.” “The party as it is can hardly stay together” @Nick Little: “Anyone who doesn’t think Starmer is a big part of Labor’s problems and a symbol of the awakened metropolitan cult that it has become is wrong. as they come together over the next few years, Labor will follow the same path the Liberals did 90 years ago. “The party as it is can hardly stay united, and if Starmer really stands up to the Corbynite mob, a split is absolutely inevitable. As it stands, not only are the North and Midlands deserting Plowing in droves, but the waking up urban crowd makes a perfect example of good old Keir can’t hold a torch to fallen idol Corbyn. “Starmer just has nowhere to go now and has hemorrhagic support from all sides, with many Corbynites defecting to the Greens.” completely and the Greens may well start to make very significant inroads into urban Labor strongholds such as London, Bristol, etc. I can easily see them drop to under 150 seats in the next general election, unless something changes quickly, with a Tory majority to rival Thatcher’s in the ’80s. ”“ I could have played differently ”@Joseph Shand : “I think Starmer was lucky to be very important during the pandemic, but chose to be malicious. “The Labor Party could have played differently. It spent the entire lockdown prowling around for ways to pounce, when it really wasn’t the right thing to do. It doesn’t seem like it did itself any good, but he played a big part in getting the government into such a defensive mode. “” Starmer has nowhere to go “@Brian Corbett:” Boris has firmly parked his tanks on the Labor lawn with policies that must more to Blair than to Thatcher. Starmer just has no choice but to go further to the left. And we’ve seen what the result is. “” The problems started before Starmer “@Nicholas Mills: “It is wrong to suggest that Labor’s problems are due to Starmer. He became the divisive identity politics party long before Starmer’s arrival.” This nasty Labor has been around for a few years. . They showed contempt for the working class as uneducated and sectarian before Brexit. They have hated English nationalism for at least several decades. “The mistake they made was to put in a moderate who was supposed to lead the party.” ‘Lose Starmer’ @Paul Driscoll: ‘For me, Labor has been deeply affected by Brexit following the betrayal of their Labor MPs who, despite belonging to constituencies that wanted to leave, still did all they could. could to stop this democratic vote. “If Labor is serious about surviving, then lose Starmer and pick someone who is not seen as one of the architects as the Brexit betrayal, then build on the bold and radical manifesto that has served the party so well Labor. ” Boris’ @M Hunt: “My dad once told me that the Prime Minister should be a guy, or a woman, that you like to go have a pint with, but that you also like to defend and represent your country.” I thinks a lot of ordinary people would much rather go have a pint with Boris, and much prefer to have him defend Britain, which Starmer and Labor have not done for four or five decades. “” They are politically illiterate “@Susan Kennedy:” The job is done so all Starmer does is just rearrange the furniture on the Titanic. ” They can’t be trusted. I mean who would think of putting forward a candidate remaining in an original constituency. They are politically illiterate. “Where did it go wrong for Labor and Sir Keir Starmer? Give your opinion in the comments section below.