Keir Starmer sta sondando il primo ministro più impopolare del Regno Unito. Dove è andato tutto storto?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/uk/keir-starmer-labour-party-conference-intl
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Keir Starmer sta sondando il primo ministro più impopolare del Regno Unito. Dove è andato tutto storto?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/uk/keir-starmer-labour-party-conference-intl
di Relevant-Expert8740
35 commenti
Not meeting expectations.
We all thought we were gonna get someone less cunty than tories, and then cuntiness ensued (winter fuel payments, migration, etc). Any good news got forgotten quick
He has all the charisma of Major, tone deaf advisors, a press that will attack him no matter what and an inability to talk about anything that matters to his voters base. Oh and he went after the boomers AND vulnerable. Bad form.
Regardless of party. Blindingly and painfully out of touch of reality, so out of touch his proposals appear deliberately self sabotaging, even for satire its unbelievable
The population has been systematically gaslit by the conservatives so much, especially from Brexit, so that they have to be told comforting lies instead of truths. Anyone now telling the truth does badly.
Nowadays people want a clown show not a sensible guy willing to get on with it and do the job.
If I was Starmer I would just go back to being a KC and let the people enjoy a muppet like Johnson or a grifter like Farage.
To be honest, maybe the voting public should start to look at themselves. Six PMs in the last ten years. Maybe the problem lies elsewhere, in terms of voter expectations: low taxes and a comprehensive welfare state that dishes out free this and free that.
Because he doesn’t stand for anything, his election strategy was based around neutralising Tory attacks by abandoning any position that got attacked even if it meant throwing people under the bus.
When he got into power, he’s still unwilling to take any sort of principled stand and has isolated Labours base by trying to win voters off reform, who were never going to vote for Labour anyway.
The British people don’t want boring, responsible and practical. They want someone who points the finger at others and tells them they what they want to hear.
He made all the right noises about being the government in waiting, and then brought us the Chagos deal and a string of new and higher taxes.
No faith from the electorate, and no comprehension that a Labour government couldn’t click its fingers and undo 10 years of the Tories running the country into the ground, twinned with no spine to present the situation in those terms to the country.
Plus he’s not very likeable.
I mean, I deeply dislike him but this is just silly. Have people forgotten Liz Truss?
Yeah the country is a mess. But it’d be nice if some of the people who *voted for the last 15 years of shite* did some self examination for once.
It’s seems really easy. The left hate everything he’s doing to appease the right and the right don’t believe a word he says.
Should have really gone off on triple lock and WFA from the get go and stood by it, we might have even seen some benefit to those policies by the time the next election came around.
The objective reason is that Labour’s achievements in the last year have been small wins when people thought there’d be big wins.
Coupled with an onslaught from a media addicted to the crash-bang-wallop soap opera of the last five years.
Plus the media’s rampant love affair with a five-man party of golf club racists.
I think he’s doing alright. 1000 times better than anything the tories put out over the past 14 years.
If you want to outrun the negative press that Labour usually gets them you have to actually make positive changes for the working class, stats like “we’ve increased productivity by 2.6%!” means nothing when families are struggling to make their weekly food shop
After May, Johnson and Truss – after Truss? The media has really done a number on this country.
“most unpopular prime minister on record”? Ha, hardly. What shite, pushed by someone.
Incompetent Tories, Farage the Toad, Brexit and the general stupidity of British people…
Labour got 33.7%. The turn out was 59.7% which was down by 8% from the previous election. That’s nearly 10mil votes. In comparison 2019 Boris got 14mil votes.
I don’t know what anyone expected, of course he’s going to be unpopular, especially when you factor in dissent being louder than praise.
Media and social media throwing anything to suit and people just lapping it all up.
Anyone who thinks Nigel “Remove all of your rights” Farage is our saviour needs their heads testing.
He’s not helped himself but has there ever been an occasion where a TV News channel has been more or less dedicated to bringing down a politician in the way GB news is?
The really mind boggling thing is that it’s part owned by the man predicted to succeed him.
In 5 years time it’s entirely possible that the PM owns the most popular news channel tasked with holding him to account.
This timeline is so fucked.
He was never likeable it’s just Tories where finished.
I don’t get what there is to hate with Starmer… antipathy, sure. Why the hate though? Seems weird
I guess we can ask “what is wrong” first. Because objectively the country is doing ok – fraction higher taxes but also better pay for most. More debt but also more investment in public services. Great trade deal with India. More investment into nuclear and renewables. Good standing with the EU finally. Bit of inflation, but then that’s affecting more than the UK and it’s lower than it has been. Slow growth, but then we had a literal recession with the Tories in 2023/2024 so it’s a lot better than that. Pretty much the best relationship with Trump out of any country. More boat crossings, but also more deportations and actually putting in some mitigations in place that are legal and workable (not BoatyMcPrisonBoatFace or Rwanda) and bringing down the number of asylum seekers in hotels.
I think “what is wrong” is mainly the media and the opinions/expectations of the British public.
Because lots and lots of media outlets are very invested in telling us how unpopular he is. If you scream it loud enough people will believe it. Is Starmer difficult to warm to? Maybe. But i haven’t warmed to a single Prime Minister. And Starmer doesnt embarrass me like his predecessors
He is blatantly dishonest and reeks of being in the position for his own benefit. The Labour Party are also not a representation of the working class anymore. They’re just tories in red imo.
Kier Starmer is the 3 coats of primer you put on to cover the bright blue walls the previous owners had.
I don’t think people have strong opinions on primer, they’re too busy looking for what colour they actually want to paint the wall.
Probably because of the tory media spinning everything negatively against him and riling people up because they’re still butthurt about the tories losing .
I honestly think them not raising taxes did them real harm. There are people myself included who would be happy to pay a little more if it means public services are better.
Also legalise and tax weed and put the money into young metal health services.
He inherited a terrible economy from the Tories and then Trump got into power, with all his disruptive and erratic threats and tariffs. He has had to negotiate a minefield featuring a rabidly nationalist right-wing USA, an EU that won’t/can’t do the UK any special favours, international money markets, war in Ukraine and a genocidal Israel etc. Yes there have been a few own-goals but most of the negativity is resentment about not having a sudden and miraculous improvment in daily life as a result of getting rid of the Tories. He is working hard to address the problems in public services but there are no quick fixes to long-term systemic problems. He also suffers from actually trying to maintain standards and sticking by codes of behaviour, rather than letting his MPs and ministers get away with misbehaviour. Add in relentlessly hostile media outlets that aggressively promote the interests of their super-wealthy owners and it’s hardly surprising he had a tough time.
With constant hate from the right wing papers, Russian and American bots?
I’m not in the country any more, but I know my Tory voting parents were literally blaming him for the state of the country 30 days after he was elected, ignoring everything that happened before, so it’s hard to take any criticism seriously given the extent of the hatchet job I clearly see being done. Other than charisma (which I frankly give zero fucks for) what is he doing wrong?
Worse than Boris Johnson? Uk sure has its standards all over the place.
Edit: I read the article, who says this is John Kevin Curtice and Ipsos, not any sort of substantial poll. It’s a rubbish article.
Even the idiots on here are falling for it. We need a boring and sensible person to sort the problems.
It’s not a quick fix solution tho ha take time.
People expecting labour to fix issues within a couple of years are what the problem is here.
Give them time, we have Tories
14 years and they fucked it completely