Our local Labour MP is a good illustration of why it's not just the current leadership, but rather an entire shared ethos of self-serving virtue signalling whilst not actually altering the course of Downing Street's plans.
He talks a good game on a number of issues, but never actually criticises Starmer or his policies directly; he votes along party lines, even when they harm his own constituents (who put him in place to serve their interests); he sounds edgy, but never actually rocks the boat in any way. There are hundreds of them, all saying 'Ooh, Palestine. Isn't it awful?' but being careful not to link the government or the UK to it on any way.
It's an insipid, spinelessly loyal, hand-selected cohort - in the same way that Bozo Johnson's 2019 footsoldiers were picked for far-right, eurosceptic, slavish allegiance rather than competence (remember the Tory party? Where are they now?). And it's that spinelessness which will do for them in four years, because they've just allowed their leadership to do all this - the die is already cast.
TL;DR - I voted our Labour MP in, and I'll be voting him back out again.
Badgardener
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