Steve Coogan accusa il lavoro di Paving Way to Reform UK
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/05/steve-coogan-accuses-keir-starmer-labour-of-paving-way-for-reform-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Steve Coogan accusa il lavoro di Paving Way to Reform UK
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/05/steve-coogan-accuses-keir-starmer-labour-of-paving-way-for-reform-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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I believe all roads lead to david cameron and goerge osbourne. Osbourne with austerity and cameron with brexit
‘Ideological belief’ is the death knell of decent policy.
Maybe shut the hell up Steve, and enjoy your fortune.
>“The success of Reform, I lay squarely at the feet of the neoliberal consensus, which has let down working people for the last 40 years and they’re fed up,” he said. “It doesn’t matter who they vote for, nothing changes for them.
>“Keir Starmer and the Labour government have leant into supporting a broken system. Their modus operandi is to mitigate the worst excesses of a broken system and all that is is managed decline. What they’re doing is putting Band-Aids on the gash in the side of the Titanic.”
He’s sort of nailed it there for me. Our current model is terminally broken and it doesn’t matter who is in charge the result will be the same. At least Labour don’t seem to be actively working against the country and are making some worthwhile improvements. But whilst the same credit card style economics, lack of investment and an aging, sicker population we’re just going to go backwards regardless of what you do.
The last 15 years of decline and decay have backed us into a corner. Everything is run down a broken; as a population we are sicker than we’ve ever been and our public infrastructure is failing. We need radical solutions to have a hope of getting out of this hole.
I don’t even particularly disagree with him, but I’ve had enough of random celebrities thinking their political opinions are important
[Steve Coogan has now been charged with terrorism.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lEjEGbAFzJU&pp=ygUQU3RldmUgY29vZ2FuIEJCQw%3D%3D)
The electorate has a serious case of apathy. The Tories were increasingly out of ideas following Brexit, but once they finally bled out, they’ve been replaced by a Labour government that looks a half life of the Conservative party itself.
The main parties in a stupor will inevitably lead to smaller fringe parties making in roads, no matter how small or temporary. Starmer’s banking on losing the left vote being offset by incomings from the Tories on the center right, but it’s already been proven per the GE that won’t happen. Tories will either sit out or vote Reform until their own party looks back on its feet again. Starmer’s Labour is standing on eroding ground.
He’s not wrong. Focusing energy in blaming the Tories for everything, whilst having no ideas to actually deal with the problem,( aside from his immoral and useless PIP reforms), are as much to blame. Liberals have spent so long looking down on working class people, what did they expect? I say that as a socialist myself.
‘Neoliberal consensus’
That’s been you Steve. Now it’s not working and doesn’t make you so quite so edgy you’re changing tune to stay popular. Celebrities are still celebrities.
Why does anybody listen to these types of people, they are just spouting whatever populist shite comes to mind. They use Buzzwords like Neoliberalism makes me laugh. The UK still spends a huge amount on public services, Neoliberal policies are probably the only thing that has kept the country afloat these past decades. Reform is probably more Neoliberal than any other party right now, so people flocking to them completely disproves his idea. It’s clear why reform are growing, failure to lower immigration (this is the main reason), the feeling that British citizens are not prioritised, a stagnant economy, and unfair distribution of capital spending (something he mentions).
TBF – with just 33% of the vote a mandate for supporting genocide, combined with classic Tory policies of punching down on elderly, disabled and vulnerable their base is already knackered.
Throw in the now inevitable Autumn tax increases to the middle class ( the ones who voted the Tories out )
They will be a single term government.
It was a political choice to use austerity during that time
Once again the one of the few left leaning papers we have in the UK needlessly attacks Labour, do they actually want Reform to win?
He’s nailed it here tbh. This crap neoliberalism reboot isn’t working for anyone.
Let’s be honest, Starmer would prefer Reform to get in than a centre left or left wing Labour. He doesn’t care.
Are you sure Steve ? Are you sure it’s just not Allen partridge influencing people by dancing on a table wearing just a studded leather jock strap ?
Your argument makes no sense. If you’re using the Iraq war (which they started) as a defence for not being ready for a bust, it still doesn’t explain why during those years they were proclaiming they eradicated boom & bust.