Starmer’s Labour Under New Leadership, Still the Corbyn elephant in the room.
Its little over Keir Starmer’s first six months in office as the successor to Jeremy Corbyn after quite a dismal result after Corbyn’s leadership was anything but, the tale of how the hard left socialists more concerned with radical policy agenda rather than strategising to win elections. His leadership rather than in the most divided time in British politics mainly over the matter of Britain exiting the European Union something of which Corbyn failed to lead on with going into a snap general election with an ambiguous and neutral stance on the prevailing salient issue of the day, In a Brexit election going in with little to say on Brexit but much to say on reams and lists of policies from education, transport and the NHS more radical than the policies put out in 2019.
Under Corbyn, Labour saw change that will and is lasting longer than his leadership whilst he had a poor electoral record. He paved a legacy that causes concern and problems for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, the leader who proclaims that labour is now under new management and leadership, which is more of a test than a statement. The test is whether Starmer can unite a divided party after its most ideological shift in a generation since Blairite politics.
After, Starmer’s victory in the spring leadership election he made clear that he insists on regaining and connecting with labour heartlands the Northern so called ‘Red Wall’ turned blue. Since then he’s seen vast improvements in the polls possibly due to the incompetence of the incumbent Conservative prime ministers response to the coronavirus crisis. What possibly is allowing Starmer’s recent poll victories over the Conservative party is the leader accepted the result of Brexit and insists the government should get on with it.
The Corbyn elephant in the room is Starmer’s greatest challenge to a united Labour Party. However, from the leader who wanted to heal the divides in the party has only witnessed factionalism and conflict inherited from Corbyn. The Labour Party come into a series of different crisis antisemitism and transphobia being the ones that spring to mind, stuff that has set the Twittersphere alight witch factions of the Corbynite wing already questioning Starmer’s position.
This week, saw possibly a great blow to the any signs of labour moving on from factionalist politics and away from the division seen under Corbyn and the Corbyn legacy continues to be written. The legacy that sees many in the Jewish community feels that the Labour Party are nowhere from returning as a safe space for the Jewish community as after a nineteen day suspension from the party Corbyn’s membership was returned whilst nothing in substance was changed, the NEC returned his membership. Whilst, Starmer refuses to hand him the whip meaning Corbyn continues to be an independent MP and not a member of the parliamentary group.
With actress Oberman Tweeting in response ‘It’s really hitting home . @UKLabour is no longer my and many others home and never can be . Every crank loon conspiracy theorist obsessive Jew hating misogynist who @jeremycorbyn attracted will look at this. moment feel emboldened. @Keir_Starmer you had a chance you sold it . 😕’ going to show with Corbyn’s membership of the party reinstated though still an independent MP causes the sensation that Starmer and the new NEC who are supposedly moderate to repeal the hostile antisemetic behaviour of its members who have shared conspiracy theories.
A real defeat for Starmerism when there was a cause of optimism that Starmerism is a new politics, one which could recognise a shift to a more moderate post populist politics like seen from the Biden and Harris president and Vice President elect campaign and transition periods.
It has become more difficult and a bigger mountain for Starmer to climb to rebuild trust with the Jewish community.
