Rodney's Shield.......

[ToraToraTora]

Is Rodders running out of people to shield him, to hide his own incompetence
He refused to change tack after the recent bye election failure? He refused to sack the Gob on a stick for getting such a mauling by Penny Mordant that she put on her mask to hide her embarrassment. How much longer do the public have to wait for a decent opposition party? When will they find the 4th leader to win a GE? 2024? 2029? 2034?..........

[ToraToraTora]

ich: "I’ll ask again: how should Keir Starmer change tack, Tora?" - saidf it many times but once more for old time's sake. Get shot of all the loonies, restructure the party, withdraw the whip from all the momentum lot and put up sensible Labour as candidates when it arises. Consider a name change, basically he'll have to do a Tony and become Tory lite. He needs to acknowledge and accept that real Labour is not acceptable to the public and hasn't been for half a century. Doing all the above will be tough, divisive and may actually get them worse off in the short term but as TGL taught us the medicine is harsh but the patient surely needs it.

[ToraToraTora]

...^^^^ that's for any Labour leader and they'll need a new one, I suppect they'll let him get hammered by Boris at the next election and then replace him. Rodders has already set his stall out as a Timid, Dull, charisma bypassed dullard. He should not have let the GOAS make a plonker out of him last month.

[douglas9401]

Top advisin' there Tora, Mr Starmer would do well to listen to the EOFE.

[Peter Pedant]

to make it clear
Rodders is a foo-foo and is going to have the crap beaten of him at Batley later on this month? monf? I mean

bing bong bang - his fault - Ridders that is ! - for being cheif medical officer in the first foo !

[Peter Pedant]

yeah OK I will accept that

[ichkeria]

Well that isn’t really a tactical change of tack, but I don’t disagree with a lot of it.
For now though, any Labour leader has a pretty hapless task. When you have a national crisis and a PM who seems bullet proof, regardless, then it’s pretty much impossible for an opposition.
One thing I’m certain of: Johnson’s popularity in seats such as Hartlepool and Batley (the latter of course isn’t quite the same) will not last.

[douglas9401]

The PM's not bullet proof, it's the electorate shooting blanks.