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The it factor
1. Politics & law. Being good at one doesn& #39;t automatically make someone good at the other.
When we had & #39;forensic fortnight& #39; & the press in raptures over Starmer becoming the LP leader, I had misgivings.
The it factor
1. Politics & law. Being good at one doesn& #39;t automatically make someone good at the other.
When we had & #39;forensic fortnight& #39; & the press in raptures over Starmer becoming the LP leader, I had misgivings.
2. The devil might be in the detail, but the public soon switch off when the minutia of procedural improprieties are used as gotchas.
Nit picking isn& #39;t an attractive attribute & to get away with it in the political forum, it has to be presented with flair & moderation
Nit picking isn& #39;t an attractive attribute & to get away with it in the political forum, it has to be presented with flair & moderation
3. I recall the frustration over the lack of popular support for William Hague. Week after week calling out Tony Blair, deftly pointing out the BS... to a mostly deaf audience.
4. The same frustration was experienced by Cameron after Boris got stuck on the zip wire, clutching a Union Jack in each hand & looking a complete wally.
The & #39;disaster& #39; attracted a huge amount of publicity & Boris& #39;s rating went up.
The & #39;disaster& #39; attracted a huge amount of publicity & Boris& #39;s rating went up.
5. The ability to make a twat of yourself in public, laugh about it & continue on unperturbed somehow connects favourably with our own flawed characters. We& #39;re more at ease with imperfect people. The robotic men in grey suits cannot be fathomed & it makes us wary.
6. Political intuition is something lacking in Keir Starmer. Labour had the chance to sink the Tories & missed an open goal. When Starmer & Long-Bailey negotiated towards a softer Brexit with Mrs May, a long term victory was in Labour& #39;s hands.
7. The Tories were polling on 16 - 17% & wouldn& #39;t have recovered if a deal had been struck. Labour turned their nose up at the deal because they wanted to add a 2nd referendum to it.
8. It all fell apart & never came before Parliament for a vote, but the deal later reappeared in the Benn Act. By then it was too late, through political naivety Labour had declined their future route to victory. If only they& #39;d known just how far they could go & get away with it.
9. We& #39;re seeing the same type of errors with Labour again. Focusing on the wrong things. Taking the p out of someone& #39;s taste in furnishings can backfire:
a) It starts to look like jealousy, or
b) It starts to look like a young mum is victim of an orchestrated media pile-on.
a) It starts to look like jealousy, or
b) It starts to look like a young mum is victim of an orchestrated media pile-on.
10. Once the public start to pity the purported baddie, it& #39;s game over for the perpetrator of the ridicule.
They over egged the pudding by trying to push a narrative people weren& #39;t comfortable with.
They over egged the pudding by trying to push a narrative people weren& #39;t comfortable with.
11. So here we are with Labour unable to formulate policy to take to the local elections. The Party is so divided it can& #39;t move one way or the other due to each faction vying for supremacy.
