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The it factor

1. Politics & law. Being good at one doesn't automatically make someone good at the other.

When we had 'forensic fortnight' & 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'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 'disaster' attracted a huge amount of publicity & Boris'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'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's hands.

7. The Tories were polling on 16 - 17% & wouldn'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'd known just how far they could go & get away with it.

9. We're seeing the same type of errors with Labour again. Focusing on the wrong things. Taking the p out of someone'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.

10. Once the public start to pity the purported baddie, it's game over for the perpetrator of the ridicule.

They over egged the pudding by trying to push a narrative people weren'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't move one way or the other due to each faction vying for supremacy.

12. Hating billionaires & trolling Boris isn't enough to cover the cracks. They're in a huge crisis & I can't see a way out for them without the Party fracturing, but no-one wants to relinquish the brand, or acknowledge the people they hate most are the people who voted for them.