Keir Starmer prevede il rimescola per riaffermare la sua autorità sul lavoro
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/keir-starmer-cabinet-reshuffle-bvq5tvgrj
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Keir Starmer prevede il rimescola per riaffermare la sua autorità sul lavoro
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/keir-starmer-cabinet-reshuffle-bvq5tvgrj
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Just what we need right now: a disruptive Cabinet reshuffle done for purely petty political reasons.
He’s planning it today but will change his mind tomorrow when one of his back benchers tells him not to do it.
Nothing says I have it all under control like a hasty, unplanned, Cabinet Shuffle.
> While No 10 insists it is not a reset, the changes are part of a planned move towards a second “delivery” phase of government. Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s chief of staff, recently told special advisers of the need to “bend the arc of hope upwards”.
Could always quit Morgan and stop driving us forward on a slow neoliberal death spiral
>There have been briefings against Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, and Lucy Powell, the leader of the Commons.
Is it just me or it is mostly female ministers getting briefed against? Haven’t heard that much briefing against people like Wes Streeting
Labour have had 14 years to prepare doe government and they have come in clueless on just about everything.
Shuffle all you want, mate. Its still the same shitty deck you brought with you.
Our country is run by someone that uses the phrase ‘bend the arc of hope upwards’. Smh
He’ll shuffle then reshuffle it back after fierce criticism
**Wasn’t this sub Anti Politics ?**
Seen multiple political posts taken down
But this is ok ?
> The group gathered before him, he said, was the most working-class cabinet of all time. “You all have your own stories about the battle you had to get here,” he said. “This is a time for fighters. You are here to remove the barriers for working people to get to where they want to.”
Very funny to say this while also demanding they double-down on a broader social and economic platform basically tailor made to benefit billionaires and big businesses. But I guess as long as a dozen people from *working class backgrounds* get to have a play at politics before jumping into private consultancy then that’s alright.
> While No 10 insists it is not a reset, the changes are part of a planned move towards a second “delivery” phase of government. Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s chief of staff, recently told special advisers of the need to “bend the arc of hope upwards”.
*Bend the arc of hope upwards*. Fuck me, can we get any more *Thick of It*?
> However, Starmer now thinks he cannot wait that long and needs a reshuffle to reassert his authority among Labour MPs after the welfare debacle. The scale of it is still to be decided and is said to be a “live” discussion.
Should I start working more with all wings of the party in order to ensure we avoid another disaster like over PIP cuts? No! Double down! Never back down! It’s time to *assert my authority* and become even *more* insular!
> Among the ideas being discussed are appointing an MP to a senior position in Downing Street to assist McSweeney and allow him to concentrate on the more politically strategic role he held before replacing Gray.
Lord. So one of their *throws of the dice* is… trying to give McSweeney more authority within the party, despite the fact that McSweeney is the course of many of these problems specifically? Genuinely pathetic. May as well just make McSweeney PM at this point and give Starmer some toy blocks to play with in the corner or something.
Like genuinely, if they follow this approach they are creating the conditions for another large scale rebellion within 12 months time. Awful governance, entirely paving the way for Reform.
So, you are going to get rid of Morgan McSweeney then? No? Thought not.
I never understood reshuffles. Surely you are in a department you know about? As NHS admin im not going to be put in charge of a hospital as i have no idea about it
Ffs we need rid of Streeting and Reeves. That’s enough to fix most issues.
As much as I want them to be stable, I think Reeves has the worst public opinion and I wouldn’t be surprised to see her go. I do feel sorry for her though, she had some tough decisions to make, and you would never see a Tory or reform member publicly shed a tear, even for a ‘private’ matter. We forget that politicians are also human and compassion goes a long way if the intentions are sincere.
Isn’t that kind of the problem in a nutshell, though?
Starmer (or more likely McSweeney who operates him) sees the vast majority of his MPs and party workers as a hostile force that need to be tamped down and ruled over, rather than colleagues and comrades (not in the Soviet sense) to be talked to and worked with.
I suppose this is the inevitable result when a small clique of neoliberal empty suits, media-trained yesmen and corporate dickriders insist on talking amongst themselves – and only amongst themselves – about the direction they should take a party historically based on a broad church of political views, the collective power of labour, and consensus-building. Then they shit out their decision from a great height and seem utterly surprised when everyone under them doesn’t like it, actually.
Starmer’s and McSweeney’s time at the head of Labour has been characterised (and will no doubt continue to be until it’s their time to leap headfirst into history’s dustbin) as a series of unsuccessful attempts to loudly insist upon their total authority and power, mostly because they seem to entirely lack either an appealing vision or a force of personality to get people onside who aren’t already there.
“We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.” Petronius Arbiter
At best it’s to sack some people and try to blame them for his lack of leadership.
At worst its just a stop gap to buy another 6 months.
What are odds on a 2026 general election?