You will have noticed that one of the things Keir Starmer claimed for his Premiership yesterday was a reduction in child poverty.
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You will have noticed that one of the things Keir Starmer claimed for his Premiership yesterday was a reduction in child poverty.
Its just one more example (the second today) of politicians thinking we have no memories.
His political myopia conveniently 'forgot' he resisted the shift in the two child benefit cap until he faced a backbench revolt, and then made the change grudgingly... how is this his 'achievement'?
Again, no wonder people hold politicians in contempt!
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You will have noticed that one of the things Keir Starmer claimed for his Premiership yesterday was a reduction in child poverty.
Its just one more example (the second today) of politicians thinking we have no memories.
His political myopia conveniently 'forgot' he resisted the shift in the two child benefit cap until he faced a backbench revolt, and then made the change grudgingly... how is this his 'achievement'?
Again, no wonder people hold politicians in contempt!
I expect Burnham to have better advisers.... he seems to have a better political awareness .... so at least the optics might improve if the overall conduct doesn't
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You will have noticed that one of the things Keir Starmer claimed for his Premiership yesterday was a reduction in child poverty.
Its just one more example (the second today) of politicians thinking we have no memories.
His political myopia conveniently 'forgot' he resisted the shift in the two child benefit cap until he faced a backbench revolt, and then made the change grudgingly... how is this his 'achievement'?
Again, no wonder people hold politicians in contempt!
It's very understandable - we all do it, don't we ? - for Starmer to try to cast his past in the best possible light.
What I find more worrying though is that there is something of a political project going on around this - a consistent repetition from the Labour right of the false perspective that Starmer 'saved' Labour, when in fact he almost destroyed it - and a complicity from the media, that just as consistently fails to challenge this propaganda.
This is how political mythologies become 'common sense', and mistaken for reality - and there is no myth more potent in the UK than the notion that the left is unelectable.
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You will have noticed that one of the things Keir Starmer claimed for his Premiership yesterday was a reduction in child poverty.
Its just one more example (the second today) of politicians thinking we have no memories.
His political myopia conveniently 'forgot' he resisted the shift in the two child benefit cap until he faced a backbench revolt, and then made the change grudgingly... how is this his 'achievement'?
Again, no wonder people hold politicians in contempt!
@ChrisMayLA6
I’d still question this reduction in child poverty. Did the benefit cap get removed? Did it even get raised in line with inflation?
Allowing parents to claim for more children until they run up against another barrier. -
You will have noticed that one of the things Keir Starmer claimed for his Premiership yesterday was a reduction in child poverty.
Its just one more example (the second today) of politicians thinking we have no memories.
His political myopia conveniently 'forgot' he resisted the shift in the two child benefit cap until he faced a backbench revolt, and then made the change grudgingly... how is this his 'achievement'?
Again, no wonder people hold politicians in contempt!
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It's very understandable - we all do it, don't we ? - for Starmer to try to cast his past in the best possible light.
What I find more worrying though is that there is something of a political project going on around this - a consistent repetition from the Labour right of the false perspective that Starmer 'saved' Labour, when in fact he almost destroyed it - and a complicity from the media, that just as consistently fails to challenge this propaganda.
This is how political mythologies become 'common sense', and mistaken for reality - and there is no myth more potent in the UK than the notion that the left is unelectable.
Corbyn gained a hung election, but the tories cheated by forming a coalition with the DUP.
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