• stevecrox@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That isn’t what he said…

    He states what he would like to do but sidesteps the question when asked directly what payrise offer he would make. His message is focused on growing the economy.

    I think its expectation management, I think he sees his first few years as firefighting and he won’t make promises he can’t keep.

    Labours message on the NHS was focused on rolling back privatisation, then it suddenly stopped and became about bed blocking and staff shortages.

    I don’t think Starmer suddenly decided privatisation was good, its more bed blocking is eating NHS resources and there is a 30,000 staff shortage.

    Those are critical issues which if left will cause the NHS to collapse, so if you know you won’t have time to address something like privatisation it makes sense not to promise to remove it.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah they’re 18% ahead in the polls. It would be foolish to make any promises at this point - he doesn’t need to and only risks giving the cons attack headlines and losing votes. Until they have to produce a manifesto and while the tories continue to self destruct, these are the sorts of statements / interviews you’re going to get.