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The Tories have lost. Now which voters should they chase? (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 4 months ago by Spendrill@lemm.ee to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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This gave me a big belly laugh:

Another Conservative said: “The answer is we need to find a way to appeal to voters we lost to all parties. I don’t know how you do that on policy, but Keir Starmer showed you can do it by looking competent and serious. But I don’t know if any of the candidates we have at the moment can do that.”

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Keir Starmer showed you can do it by looking competent and serious.

He doesn't have a charisma to be honest, unlike Blair.

Also, many people voted Labour solely because they voted against Tories, not because people like Starmer and Labour. The fact that Starmer isn't polling well in terms of popularity shows that. But this doesn't matter seeing as Labour won a landslide.

I just hope that Labour and Starmer doesn't end up like the German SDP and Olaf Scholz. The latter won but doing badly as government. Scholz also presented an air of seriousness but is unpopular.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

Agreed, that is why people voted the way they did, but Starmer has already had a bump in approval. The next GE will be on his record. Nobody will care if he's somebody they want to talk to down the pub if he delivers improvements.